Mending a broken heart
Laurie Boyer’s work might one day lead to cures for heart defects and disease.
Laurie Boyer’s work might one day lead to cures for heart defects and disease.
Graduate student Alexander Godfrey tackles a chromosome that half the world has — yet few understand.
PhD student Reshmaan Hussam’s study of Bangladeshis’ economic behavior leads to research on hand-washing.
Richard de Neufville teaches and practices flexible engineering design for infrastructure projects that meet the challenges of the future.
Assistant Professor Elsa Olivetti combines cost and environmental data to identify high-impact areas for reducing pollution and greenhouse gases.
Graduate student Sergio Cantu studies lasers to increase computational speed and security.
A high-school outreach program first brought Tamara Broderick to MIT in 2002. Now she's back, as an assistant professor in EECS.
Erica Caple James investigates how behavior, culture, and structural inequalities impact health.
PhD student Natasha Wright makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.
A witness to “a montage of environmental changes” in her native China, grad student Ruby Fu now studies the fate of methane bubbles in the ocean.
Modeling mechanical stress in solid-state lithium batteries yields insights into battery microstructure for MIT postdoc Giovanna Bucci.
Christopher Love uses microscale technology to isolate rare cells, yielding insight into human disease.
MIT Medical stalwart Maria Bachini reflects on half a century at the Institute.
Senior biology and chemistry major Daniel Zhang helps build noninvasive cancer diagnostic tools.
Materials science professor develops algorithms to solve problems across disciplines, strengthens online teaching techniques, and contributes to scientific art.