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Meet Lauryn Kortman: Juggling fusion magnets and fire batons
Rising MIT junior finds satisfaction designing for the laboratory and the playing field.
August 12, 2020 -
Rebuilding cultures through art, design, and community
Once displaced by war, MIT’s Azra Akšamija creates works of cultural resilience in the face of social conflict.
August 12, 2020 -
When the chemical industry met modern architecture
PhD student Jessica Varner traces the way synthetic building materials have transformed our environment.
August 6, 2020 -
Ila Fiete studies how the brain performs complex computations
The MIT professor takes a mathematical approach to exploring memory, navigation, and other neural functions.
July 28, 2020 -
Shining a light on the quantum world
With funding from MISTI, physicists at MIT and in Israel collaborate to improve understanding and use of quantum light.
July 27, 2020 -
How to grow a cosmic magnetic field
Graduate student Muni Zhou shows how tiny magnetic seed fields can expand to cosmic proportions.
July 21, 2020 -
In his element in the chem lab and the kickboxing ring
PhD student Levi Knippel is dedicated to making the Department of Chemistry “a community that everyone wants to be a part of.”
July 20, 2020 -
A voice for diversity, equity, and inclusion in civil and environmental engineering
Postdoc Md Sami Hasnine's work has been instrumental in forming CEE’s DEI committee.
July 20, 2020 -
Communicating the “beauty and complexity” of science
With a newly minted PhD, Fernanda de Araújo Ferreira now explores the scientific enterprise through journalism.
July 13, 2020 -
A wizard of ultrasharp imaging
To oversee its new cutting-edge electron microscopy systems, MIT sought out Frances Ross’ industry-honed expertise.
July 12, 2020 -
Studying the cultures of companies
PhD student and “organizational ethnographer” Summer Jackson investigates the complex social hierarchies that govern the way we work.
July 9, 2020 -
Exploring interactions of light and matter
Juejun Hu pushes the frontiers of optoelectronics for biological imaging, communications, and consumer electronics.
June 30, 2020 -
Darien Williams: Chronicling Black resilience to disaster
In researching disaster recovery and marginalized populations, the PhD student seeks out people with deep knowledge of their communities.
June 24, 2020 -
Ice, ice, maybe
EAPS graduate student Meghana Ranganathan zooms into the microstructure of ice streams to better understand the impacts of climate change.
June 17, 2020 -
What moves people?
Associate Professor Jinhua Zhao, who will direct the new MIT Mobility Initiative, brings behavioral science to urban transportation.
June 15, 2020 -
From delayed deceleration to Zooming
Jacqueline Thomas PhD ’20 recounts her final academic year at MIT, from once-in-a-lifetime field work to a virtual thesis defense.
June 14, 2020 -
Capturing stardust
Danielle Frostig, a physics graduate student, is developing an instrument to study how the heaviest elements in the universe are produced.
June 12, 2020 -
Learning the ropes and throwing lifelines
PhD student Geeticka Chauhan draws on her experiences as an international student to strengthen the bonds of her MIT community.
June 8, 2020 -
Lighting the way to better battery technology
Doctoral candidate Supratim Das wants the world to know how to make longer-lasting batteries that charge mobile phones and electric cars.
June 1, 2020 -
Meet the MIT bilinguals: Dual materials science and music major Talia Khan
Fulbright Fellowship recipient encourages more musicologists and scientists to do interdisciplinary work with one another.
May 26, 2020