Giving the people what they want?
Political scientist Devin Caughey studies how public opinion influences American politics.
Political scientist Devin Caughey studies how public opinion influences American politics.
Maya Nasr’s work on the Mars 2020 mission has led her to become an advocate for expanding international cooperation in space.
Team brings diverse backgrounds and expertise to address technology and policy challenges for the clean energy transition.
PhD student and 2017 J-WAFS graduate fellow Tzu-Chieh Tang designs living materials to solve environmental challenges, with an emphasis on safety and scalability.
Through research and student leadership, senior Orisa Coombs is tackling problems including water scarcity, food insecurity, and racial injustice.
Assistant Professor Cathy Wu aims to help autonomous vehicles fulfill their promise by better understanding how to integrate them into the transportation system.
Senior Alana Sanchez combines her interests in visual arts and space research to fulfill a childhood curiosity about the cosmos.
Manipulating materials at a fundamental level, Ju Li reveals new properties for energy applications.
Associate Professor Michael Short’s innovative approach can be seen in the two nuclear science and engineering courses he’s transformed.
Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale.
With an artist’s eye, graduate student Natasha Sadikin keeps good design at the forefront of real estate development.
Associate professor of music Emily Richmond Pollock studies the way modern opera incorporates the new and the traditional.
MIT political scientist Richard Nielsen combines ethnography and big data to analyze clerics and preachers in the Islamic world.
MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas reflects on the deep connection between planetary and human well-being.
As a tutor and teaching assistant, senior Jack-Willliam Barotta helps create a welcoming learning environment for students of all backgrounds.