Surrounded by questions
PhD student Nils Wernerfelt deploys the tools of economics to address his many questions about the world.
PhD student Nils Wernerfelt deploys the tools of economics to address his many questions about the world.
Engineer’s designs may help purify water, diagnose disease in remote regions of world.
Alfredo Alexander-Katz probes systems in action, from clotting blood to walking molecules.
Chemistry professor Mei Hong studies the structures of proteins embedded in cell membranes.
Environmental Solutions Initiative’s new director discusses sustainable development, student engagement, and making Baker House his home.
PhD student Rebecca Millsop uses philosophy to take on contentious questions about how we define art.
Concrete Sustainability Hub researcher Omar Swei is working to help Jordanian planners optimize maintenance on state-owned highways.
PhD student Cauam Cardoso assesses technologies that aim to help the world’s poor.
Associate Professor Ernest Fraenkel uses biological network modeling to identify new targets for disease.
Physicist has a fascination for the complexities of turbulence, and how to reduce it in fusion reactors.
With support she received at the Institute, Leila Pirhaji wants to bring computational systems biology to the marketplace.
Senior Cara Lai cites MIT Literature studies as key to her preparation for medical practice.
Nuclear science and engineering PhD student Cody Dennett simulates conditions inside reactors to measure microscopic defects in irradiated materials.
Senior Marie Elimbi Moudio enters a “weird place” and discovers a world of possibility.