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MIT senior Drew Bent regularly volunteers at the East End House, a Cambridge community center that holds educational programs for all ages.

Making others’ voices heard through education and journalism

Senior Drew Bent hopes to level the educational playing field of the future.

November 27, 2017

Ryan Williams, who joined the MIT electrical engineering and computer science faculty with tenure this year, hasn’t solved the problem of P vs. NP — nobody has — but he’s made one of the most important recent contributions toward its solution.

Chasing complexity

Ryan Williams has taken a key step toward solving the biggest problem in theoretical computer science.

November 22, 2017

Elizabeth Dekeyser is on a multi-year research project investigating the ways Islam shapes people’s sense of citizenship and allegiance to the French state.

An American in Paris

Doctoral student Elizabeth Dekeyser studies Muslim communities' sense of solidarity with the French state.

November 20, 2017

Ian Schneider is exploring research questions about the interaction between the workings of financial markets and the fluctuations of energy supply.

Engineering a brighter future

Optimizing the design of electricity markets could make it easier to integrate renewable energy sources into the power grid.

November 17, 2017

MIT senior Mary Clare Beytagh hopes to become a science writer as well as a physician-scientist, telling stories that humanize patients and focus on the social and economic determinants of health.

Mary Clare Beytagh: Finding poetry in medicine

MIT senior and aspiring physician aims to tell stories that humanize the patients behind medical statistics.

November 12, 2017

Fighting a giant foe at a tiny scale

Professor Paula Hammond uses nanoscale biomaterials to craft anti-cancer treatments tiny enough to get through the bloodstream and enter tumors.

November 7, 2017

Professor Jesse Thaler, who recently was granted tenure as an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Physics, is applying his theoretical insights to interpret data from current experiments and guide the design of future experiments.

Jesse Thaler: Seeking the fundamental nature of matter

Theorist explores particle physics at the boundary of “messy and elegant.”

November 7, 2017

Woodard is a co-founder of the MIT BoSTEM Scholars Academy. The four-week summer program gives high school students valuable experiences in STEM and aims to put them on the path to MIT and other universities. Woodard worked with his co-founder Javier Weddington to raise $18,000 to fund the program, which debuted the summer of 2017 and will continue in the coming summers.

Connecting through conversation

Whether in Cambridge or Shanghai, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard seeks to learn from others’ perspectives and challenge his own.

November 1, 2017

Jerry Akinsulire’s ideal job would involve “an interplay — developing ideas on a drawing board, building something hands on, and then testing in the world,” he says. “That would be the perfect combination for me.”

Jerry Akinsulire: The making of a maker mentor

Undergraduate Olorunsola “Jerry” Akinsulire spearheads a new builder space in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

October 26, 2017

“I remain optimistic about the ability of international agreements to address environmental problems, primarily because that’s the only solution we have at this point,” associate professor Noelle Selin says.

Noelle Selin: Tracing toxins around the world

Atmospheric chemist takes on pollutants and the global treaties written to control them.

October 22, 2017

Jing Wang (bottom left), director of the MIT New Media Action Lab, facilitates a civic hackathon in collaboration with Tencent Cloud developers in Shenzhen, China. Wang and her nonprofit, NGO2.0, work to bridge the digital gap to improve social welfare for underserved populations in rural and urban China.

Helping NGOs make impacts across China

Cultural studies scholar Jing Wang, director of the New Media Action Lab, advances philanthropic solutions to the digital divide.

October 18, 2017

“I found diaries from 7th grade where I asked a whole stream of questions about the universe and the ‘edge of the universe’ and its expansion,” says senior Talia Weiss.

Bridging the science-policy divide

For MIT senior Talia Weiss, physics and theater have provided a springboard for new interests in political science.

October 17, 2017

David Des Marais recently joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, and will work in the department’s Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering.

Finding the root cause of plant resilience

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering welcomes plant ecologist Dave Des Marais to the MIT faculty.

October 10, 2017

MIT associate professor Jeremiah Johnson

The art and science of polymer chemistry

Jeremiah Johnson designs novel materials for drug delivery, energy, and other applications.

October 9, 2017

Ketian Zhang, the daughter of Chinese Communist Party officials, studies Chinese foreign policy at MIT from a unique dual perspective.

Probing the behavior of an international bully

Political science doctoral student Ketian Zhang sheds light on China's use of coercion in foreign policy, hoping to span a deep divide.

October 4, 2017

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