Devices that emit germicidal ultraviolet light at a wavelength considered safe for humans have been touted as a way to reduce airborne pathogens like SARS-Cov-2 in poorly ventilated indoor spaces, but new... Read more »
I’m sometimes asked how I go about constructing a palindrome. It’s difficult to describe something that often happens instantly—I write a good many palindromes without ever putting pen to paper—but I would... Read more »
Sawaka Kawashima Romaine ’01 speaks to local kids in Tokyo at a STEM workshop. Upon starting her three-year tenure, Romaine says, she had a clear vision for what she wanted to achieve.... Read more »
Orientation was a wake-up call. “All the first-year students were assembled beneath the big dome,” he recalls. “And a professor told each of us to look to our left and then to... Read more »
Samyn grew up in the Belgian countryside, where his father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a painter. With a love for both art and math, he studied structural engineering,... Read more »
To fuel such change, Crawford works to make clear the full cost of military activity, providing data on dollars spent, lives lost, and the broader costs to society. The cofounder of the... Read more »
Taking on big challenges is nothing new for Tsai, who was just 15 when she arrived at MIT. And while she always loved math and science, at the Institute she discovered even... Read more »
“I’ll scratch film or cut it up or reassemble it or add things like saffron leaves and petals or tree bark. Right now, I’m burying film underground,” he says, explaining a video... Read more »
“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my time at MIT,” says Irene Cheng, SM ’78, who went on to a successful Wall Street... Read more »
This time last year our AI writers did something reckless. In an industry where nothing stands still, they had a go at predicting the future. Turns out, their predictions were pretty on... Read more »