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“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.

April 29, 2016

Colette Heald describes her current work as “trying to understand the sources, transformation, and impact of gases and particles in the atmosphere, which is very dynamic with a lot of chemical compounds that interact.”

There’s something in the air

Colette Heald studies atmospheric gases and particles, and how they affect air quality and climate.

April 28, 2016

Designing a better built environment

Oral Buyukozturk develops innovative designs and technologies for durable, sustainable physical infrastructure projects.

April 25, 2016

“I learned that MIT is a place that gives you the resources, and if you want to use them, you'll make something very beautiful and positively productive,” Juan Jaramillo says. “So I applied and fortunately I got in early. It was a dream come true.”

Combining curiosity with a desire to help

Senior Juan Jaramillo harnesses his natural curiosity to help others, while never forgetting his roots.

April 20, 2016

Fast-tracking medical device development

Brian Anthony teams researchers and physicians with industry to accelerate advances in patient care.

April 13, 2016

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