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Five with MIT ties win 2022 Hertz Foundation Fellowships
Five current graduate students and recent alumni have been awarded 2022 Hertz Fellowships in applied science,…
MIT J-WAFS announces 2022 seed grant recipients
The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has awarded eight MIT…
MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC
MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) will substantially expand its fusion energy research and education…
Sanjay Sarma to step down as vice president for open learning
After nearly a decade running MIT’s digital learning platforms and education initiatives, Vice President for Open…
Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of nervous system cells, but…
Providing hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
Photonics — the science of guiding and manipulating light — enables applications ranging from telecommunications, artificial…
Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
Perovskites are a family of materials that are currently the leading contender to potentially replace today’s…