On the edge of discovery
For PhD student Silvia Espinosa, a passion for solving theoretical puzzles fuels a quest for fusion energy.
Startups show promise, progress at Demo Day
Capstone event for MIT’s summer accelerator showcases businesses with significant early growth.
Benefiting human health through engineering
PhD student Anasuya Mandal’s microneedle device could painlessly monitor the immune system.
MIT’s REXIS is bound for asteroid Bennu
Instrument will help OSIRIS-REx mission identify locations for collecting an asteroid sample.
Surrounded by questions
PhD student Nils Wernerfelt deploys the tools of economics to address his many questions about the world.
Tiny gold grids yielding secrets
Summer Scholar Justin Cheng explores process in Berggren group for making ordered metal nanostructures that display interesting new properties.
Designing safe, cheap batteries for grid level storage
Summer Scholar Victoria Yao experiments with water-based, flow-driven battery concept in Brushett Lab.
President Reif to Class of 2020: “All of us together will make a better world”
MIT president and professors offer words of wisdom, encouragement at Freshman Convocation.
Modeling how colloidal particles spin through a fixed array
Summer Scholar Jennifer Coulter works on computer simulations with associate professor of materials science Alfredo Alexander-Katz.
Integrating user-collected data in city planning
Lily Bui draws upon science, art, and public advocacy to enrich urban design.
Family and friends recall Drew Esquivel
A talented scholar and athlete, the MIT rising senior “never failed to see the good in others.”
Summer in the Sandbox
Students in a new innovation program are using the summer, their new connections, and their funding to move their ideas forward.
Booting up spin-based device studies
Summer Scholar Grant Smith works to establish parameters for making ferromagnetic thin films in the Luqiao Liu lab.
Chemical sensing at telecom wavelengths
Summer Scholar Ashley Del Valle Morales probes new a silicon carbide system in the MIT Microphotonics Center.