Five with MIT ties win 2022 Hertz Foundation Fellowships
Award provides five years of funding and access to a community of innovative scholars and leaders in science and technology.
Making art through computation
Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
MIT finishes fourth in 2022 Division III LEARFIELD Directors' Cup standings
The Engineers post their second-highest finish in program history after claiming 11 NEWMAC titles.
Mining social media data for social good
Erin Walk, a PhD student in social and engineering systems, studies the impact of social media on the Syrian conflict.
Evan Leppink: Seeking a way to better stabilize the fusion environment
In a residency supported by the Department of Energy, the MIT PhD candidate will explore the high-field side of the DIII-D tokamak.
Helping renewable energy projects succeed in local communities
PhD student Jungwoo Chun works toward a more sustainable future through research, teaching, and public service.
An astrophysicist in a biomedical universe
Magdelena Allen is developing a highly sensitive brain PET scanner that can help answer fundamental questions in neuroscience and particle physics.
Student-powered machine learning
Recent MEng graduates reflect on their application-focused research as affiliates of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 82 students from the Class of 2022
“Love of wisdom is the helmsman of life.”
The physics of gut and brain health
Chih-Wei Joshua Liu ’22 is an aspiring physician-physicist working to unlock the secrets of thermodynamics in biology and medicine.
Making the case for “fake lawyering”
Through the MIT Mock Trial program, students hone their skills in public speaking, formulating arguments, and acting.
A passion for science and music
Fieldwork campfire jam sessions and geology lessons helped inspire senior Zoe Levitt to pursue songwriting full time.
First-year students take center stage on Killian Court
For the first time, students in 2.00b (Toy Product Design) performed their “PLAYsentations” live for a large audience on Killian Court.
“Zoom out”: Kealoha Wong ’99 calls on MIT graduates to consider their lives within the enormity of the universe
Hawaii's first poet laureate spoke at an on-campus celebration for the classes of 2020 and 2021.
Mining valuable insights from diamonds
A drive to understand natural science phenomena ignited MIT graduate student Changhao Li’s love of quantum physics.