Video storytelling that captures the heart of the matter
Brain reader
Dr. Sirma Orguc uses computational neuroscience to probe the brain’s “black box” for clues on its functions, and to advance medical technology.
First low-carbon cement pour in Boston largest's net-zero-carbon office building
Sublime Systems CEO Leah Ellis and partners discuss the 'tidal wave' in low-carbon construction and how the industry is working together to accelerate the transition.
Off to the races
Twelve researchers participated in the 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition, designed to support female biotech pioneers. The competition is part of the MIT Faculty Founder Initiative, which was launched in 2020 by the MIT School of Engineering and the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.
Scalable sustainability solutions
Researchers affiliated with the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium are collaborating with member companies to help scale promising lab breakthroughs.
In her nature
Mercy Chepsuge, a young Kenyan environmentalist and EarthLungs Reforestation have joined forces with Carbon Counts, a company committed to uniting individuals with environmental action through their mobile game, EverForest.
Factories on the Frontier
American manufacturing is at a crossroads. There is a growing demand to make things in America, but uncertainty that U.S. factories can grow fast enough to meet the moment. Factories with robotic automation grow faster and hire more people than those without. But only 1 in 10 American factories has any robots -- and fewer have automated at scale. In the first episode of MIT's Factories on the Frontier series, meet Colin Cutts of G&T Manufacturing to understand how he has transformed his family-owned business.
Looking up
Ever since she can remember, Elissa Gibson has been on the lookout for airplanes overhead. Her passion for flying, and for understanding human performance in flight, lead her to double major in aerospace engineering brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, where she also became a champion for social justice and inclusiveness.
The ultimate truth
At the age of 12, Fernanda De La Torre crossed the border from Mexico to the United States on foot to escape abuse. For much of her teenage and young adult life, she was unhoused and undocumented as she navigated her education and fell in love with science. Today she is a PhD student at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, where she studies multi-sensory perception and neural networks to explore questions about cognition, logic and truth.
Energizing the world
MIT senior, Ayomikun (Ayo) Ayodeji, is a force of nature and active community builder. Graduating with a double major in Chemical Engineering and Management, he aims to improve electricity access for communities back home in Nigeria, and across the African continent.
Pitching transformative ideas in generative AI
Students and postdocs at MIT are racing to the forefront of the generative AI revolution to start companies so they can use this powerful technology for good. They presented their ideas at the MIT Ignite: Generative AI Entrepreneurship Competition.
Collaborative Climate Resilience
When it comes to mitigating risks from climate change, the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium is working to understand the needs of its industry collaborators and connect them with relevant researchers at MIT.
Thriving Stars
The Thriving Stars program in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is on a mission to improve gender representation in electrical engineering and computer science.
Learning to fly
Veteran and PhD student Andrea Henshall has used MIT Open Learning to soar from the Air Force to multiple aeronautics degrees.
Unified Flight
For MIT AeroAstro sophomores, Unified Flight is a rite of passage, a set of highly intensive foundation-building classes that set students on a course toward becoming Astronautical Engineers.
Paint by numbers
From one door to the next, the art of hand lettering is still practiced at MIT.
Renew, reuse, recycle
MIT Engineering students are getting onboard with real-world on-board solutions to climate change. They are designing a new reusable recyclable cup for Delta under the guidance of Chemical Engineering Professor Brad Olsen and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Desiree Plata.
Point of inception
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Desiree Plata and her students at MIT are finding ways to solve environmental problems of the past — and prevent those of the future by creating sustainability-oriented innovations from the start.
Any body can do it
At Upward Spiral, the young and old, professional athletes and newbies, the strong and those recovering from injuries, are all finding deeper strength and mobility through Pilates and the GYROTONIC® Method.
Engineering joy
Graduating senior Izzy Lloyd tells the story of her career at MIT. From spearheading TMAYD (Tell me about your day), to singing acapella with the Chorrallaries, to engineering joy in the Toy Lab, and beyond.
Wizard professor
Mike Short teaches intro to nuclear physics at MIT, which even he admits can be dry. But Short is a wizard professor, casting spells on his students as he leads them through outrageous-sounding assignments that help them not only understand, but also come to love the subject.
Powering the planet
As the world moves towards cleaner and sustainable sources of energy, converting efficiently between electrical and chemical energy will be vital. This is the challenge undertaken by Professor Fikile Brushett and his lab at MIT.
Decoding language barriers
A passion for both human and machine languages led to a MISTI internship with Chinese tech giant TenCent for EECS student Virginia Adams.
I can save the world from my living room
MIT engineering students Afeefah Khazi-Syed and Jeba Sania became close friends as active members of the MIT community. Now, even from a distance, their friendship and resolve to help make the world a better place continues to grow.
Beethoven, quarantined
During the pandemic lockdown, MIT music professor Evan Ziporyn transformed his orchestra class into a remote, online learning experience at lightning speed.
The dynamics of disease transmission
Fluids are everywhere," says Prof. Lydia Bourouiba, "and pathogens are always in fluids." Investigating fluid dynamics could unlock our understanding of how diseases spread.
Stronger than steel
What's 10,000x thinner than a human hair but 100x stronger than steel? Graduating PhD student Ashely Kaiser worked with MIT's necstlab and NASA to design stronger, tougher, and lighter materials using carbon nanotubes.
Seeing, believing, and computing
Garrett Souza is analyzing the affect of visual media on implicit biases: how does what we see in images affect how we think?
Magical Bob
A fascination with magic leads Institute Professor Robert Langer to solve world problems using the marvels of chemical engineering.
Architecture in Japan
Architect Geoffrey Moussas discusses the meaning of design and architecture in Japan, where he now lives and works in Kyoto after receiving his Master’s degree in Architecture in 1993 from MIT.
Power of life
When harnessing the power of life, being able to see things at the microscopic level comes in handy. Thanks to the legendary teaching styles of Maxine Jonas and Steven Wasserman, this microscope-building class feels more like a playground of endless adventures than a required course for Bioengineering at MIT.
Scaffolding of the galaxies
In the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT, researchers develop ideas for describing the fundamental physical laws governing our universe, from perspectives spanning nuclear and particle physics, string theory, gravity, and quantum information.
Magical materials
MIT students explore, understand, create—and above all—learn while working with glass and metal in the W. David Kingery Ceramics and Glass Laboratory and Merton C. Flemings Materials Processing Laboratory.
Having a ball
MIT might not seem like a place to have a thriving dance community. In reality, the Ballroom Dance Team is top-ranked.
Love of the game
It all started in the 8th grade with a single video game. Nisha Devasia’s passion for games eventually led her MIT Media Lab’s where she helped design learning video games with the Personal Robots Group. Her dream is to one day build a game that inspires others as much as she was inspired.
Quest for Intelligence
The MIT Quest for Intelligence seeks to discover the foundations of human and machine intelligence and drive the development of technological tools that can positively influence society.
