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Jessy Lin, an MIT senior double-majoring in electrical engineering and computer science and in philosophy.

I think, therefore I code

Senior Jessy Lin, a double major in EECS and philosophy, is programming for social good.

November 15, 2018

For his doctoral research exploring the everyday moral lives of workers at an antipoverty agency, Bernardo Zacka didn't just observe and report. He joined as a participant, working as a receptionist at the agency over a period of eight months.

A bottom-up view of the state

Embedded with street-level bureaucrats, political theorist Bernardo Zacka reveals the complex moral landscape civil servants must navigate.

November 14, 2018

“By better understanding boiling heat transfer at high pressures, we could improve the performance of components inside these reactors ... and eventually help increase power output at plants,” says Artyom Kossolapov.

Heat-seeking studies

Graduate student Artyom Kossolapov takes precision measurements of critical heat flux in nuclear reactors — and rocks out on electric guitar.

November 6, 2018

“Pretty much my entire family, we are entrepreneurs. ... The notion of academia was completely foreign to me growing up,” says Associate Professor Nemit Shroff.

Why private firms’ accounting disclosures help the economy grow

MIT’s Nemit Shroff studies the information that helps managers make better decisions for their companies.

November 3, 2018

Alexi Choueiri (left) and Mahdi Ramadan, both evacuees from Lebanon, met at MIT 11 years after leaving their homeland on the same boat.

Meeting of the Minds

Mahdi Ramadan and Alexi Choueiri’s common experiences as Lebanese evacuees led both to study the human brain at MIT.

October 26, 2018

Volha Charnysh is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science.

The aftermath of violence

Investigating the political and economic consequences of large-scale deadly conflict, Volha Charnysh discovers that community-level interactions make a big impact.

October 24, 2018

Nisa Ari is a doctoral candidate in MIT's History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program.

Unraveling the complex histories of Palestinian artwork

“My job is to be critical and deep as an art historian, and not as a politician,” says PhD student Nisa Ari.

October 22, 2018

“Even if you look at a clean study, the [outcome] is usually a composite of multiple components, any one of which could be actually causing the effect,” says Associate Professor Teppei Yamamoto.

Refining the “science” of political science

Teppei Yamamoto examines the methods of his discipline, to help scholars nail down cause and effect.

October 21, 2018

Radha Mastandrea wants to know what the universe is made of.

A passionate advocate for open data

Senior Radha Mastandrea analyzes data from CERN in search of more information about the universe’s fundamental particles.

October 18, 2018

Fusion, and specifically the physics of plasmas, has remained Nuno Loureiro’s primary research focus through graduate school, postdoc stints, and now in his research and teaching at MIT.

Nuno Loureiro: Probing the world of plasmas

Physicist explores the behavior of the universe’s most abundant form of matter.

October 15, 2018

With an enthusiastic team, Yoel Fink, a professor of materials science and electrical engineering and CEO of Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), a $300 million institute on the edge of campus, is shaping a new destiny for fabrics.

Fabrics are the future

Professor Yoel Fink is helping MIT lead the way in transforming the fabric materials in our lives.

October 12, 2018

Matt Ellis PhD ’17 (left) and Sam Shaner SM ’14 PhD ’18 have designed a nuclear reactor that deploys a molten nitrate salt coolant that allows the reactor to reach higher operating temperatures than current water-cooled reactors.

Powered by idealism and pragmatism

Matt Ellis PhD ’17 and Sam Shaner SM ’14, PhD ’18 launch a startup to develop an advanced nuclear reactor design.

October 11, 2018

Takian Fakhrul, a fourth-year PhD student in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Takian Fakhrul: Paving “one-way streets” for light inside photonic devices

PhD student designs materials that help guide light within silicon chips, and seeks to advance materials science in her home country of Bangladesh.

October 2, 2018

“It’s a fantastic place. It’s the center of innovation,” Professor David Thesmar says about MIT. “It’s something you feel very strongly when you come here, the energy around campus. People are very serious about the progression of academic science.”

Does free flow of capital make the economy more efficient?

David Thesmar studies what happens when the finance sector shakes up the whole economy.

September 26, 2018

As the additive manufacturing lead at Lincoln Laboratory, Derek Straub works with technical staff to design 3-D-printed parts for various systems and technologies and oversees production on nine industrial machines.

Derek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing

Lincoln Laboratory's 3-D printing lead has been named to Manufacturing Engineering magazine's 30 Under 30 list.

September 25, 2018

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