Bringing sustainable and affordable electricity to all

When MIT electrical engineer Reja Amatya PhD ’12 arrived in Rwanda in 2015, she was whisked…

3 Questions: What’s it like winning the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition?

Solar power plays a major role in nearly every roadmap for global decarbonization. But solar panels…

Not your grandparents’ “Monopoly”

On an otherwise sleepy Friday in late June, one corner of MIT’s Hayden Library was abuzz…

Harnessing synthetic biology to make sustainable alternatives to petroleum products

Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels is going to require a transformation in the way we…

Gamifying medical data labeling to advance AI

When Erik Duhaime PhD ’19 was working on his thesis in MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence,…

A clean alternative to one of the world’s most common ingredients

Never underestimate the power of a time crunch. In 2016, MIT classmates David Heller ’18, Shara…

Charting the future of production

On Tuesday, May 23, the Manufacturing@MIT Working Group hosted its second annual symposium in Wong Auditorium,…

Will the charging networks arrive in time?

For many owners of electric vehicles (EVs), or for prospective EV owners, a thorny problem is…

Success at the intersection of technology and finance

Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin had some free advice for an at-capacity crowd of MIT…

MIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day

Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president,…