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Cody Dennett, PhD candidate in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Scrutinizing radiation’s impact

Nuclear science and engineering PhD student Cody Dennett simulates conditions inside reactors to measure microscopic defects in irradiated materials.

May 31, 2016

MIT mechanical engineering student Marie Elimbi Moudio

Finding wonderland

Senior Marie Elimbi Moudio enters a “weird place” and discovers a world of possibility.

May 27, 2016

From a near-death experience to an Executive MBA

After losing his sight in an auto accident, Joe Bellantoni is giving back to his community while enhancing his career, with the help of his wife and MIT Sloan.

May 26, 2016

Posters of religious leaders in Najaf, Iraq

From Babylon to Baudelaire and back

In exploring the role of clerics in the Shi’a world, political science PhD student Marsin Alshamary heeds the call of family history.

May 26, 2016

“When I came to [MIT’s Campus Preview Weekend], I was just blown away by how everybody was so into whatever they were doing,” Maiko Kitaoka says. “I love that atmosphere.”

Maiko Kitaoka finds elegance in unexpected places

Once an aspiring ballerina, the MIT senior now studies the earliest stages of life.

May 24, 2016

“I think just by talking to each other and helping people, not only do you potentially inspire someone, or help them make the right choice, but also you learn a lot yourself,” Donald Little says.

Helping others in daily doses

Senior Donald Little uses computer science to improve people’s everyday lives.

May 19, 2016

Thriving on risk in real estate

Professor David Geltner is developing new real estate indices to quantify uncertainties in commercial property markets.

May 18, 2016

C. Cem Tasan, the Thomas B. King Career Development Professor of Metallurgy in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Metals aficionado

A new faculty member in materials science and engineering is creating healable metals.

May 18, 2016

MIT political scientist Kenneth Oye has discovered that collaborating with technologists is a very effective way to inform good policy on the issues he cares about most — from climate change to synthetic biology.

Ken Oye and the art of sociotechnical problem-solving

May 13, 2016

Nuno Loureiro’s primary ambition for the next few years is to home in on a complete understanding of magnetic reconnection in the simplest possible plasma model.

Nuno Loureiro: A theorist seeks the elusive fundamentals of magnetic reconnection

May 12, 2016

“I realized I wanted to work on systemic changes in education,” Ruth Park says. “Currently education is supposed to be the one leveling ground between people of different economic statuses, and it's not doing that.

Determined to make a change

Senior Ruth Park draws on her background as she strives for educational reform.

May 12, 2016

MIT postdoc Cui-Zu Chang works with equipment that can monitor topological insulator thin-film quality as it grows. The bright green vertical bar on computer screen is an indicator of very high-quality film growth. Chang led work in the Moodera group showing the first zero-resistance edge state in a circuit.

Achieving zero resistance in energy flow

MIT postdoc Cui-Zu Chang makes a spintronic breakthrough in the Moodera group.

May 6, 2016

“The kinds of technologies that people are building today are much more connected to how people interact in social aspects of our culture. Technology and humanity are now deeply interlinked," says Eran Egozy, engineer, musician, new media pioneer, and MIT professor of the practice in music technology.

Sharing a passion for music and interactive technology

Harmonix co-founder Eran Egozy returns to MIT as professor of the practice in music technology.

May 4, 2016

MIT Senior Research Scientist Jagadeesh Moodera stands in front of a custom-built system used to fabricate ultrathin films. His work includes devices that exhibit resistance-free, spin-polarized electrical current; enabling memory storage at the level of single molecules; and the search for the elusive Majorana fermions sought for quantum computing.

Research highlight: Jagadeesh Moodera

Step-by-step, the Moodera Research Group is building the essential knowledge and hardware for next-generation quantum computers.

April 29, 2016

“I love the positive environmental impact of nuclear engineering. ... With the effects of climate change increasingly apparent, we need young people to contribute and help us move forward.” —Carolyn Coyle, PhD candidate in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Carolyn Coyle: Engineering CRUD for better nuclear reactors

In an effort to improve reactor safety and efficiency, new research aims to bring corrosive particle buildup out of the shadows.