MIT Love Stories | | | | | | At MIT, anything is possible — including falling in love in unexpected locations, such as Lobby 7, a board of directors meeting, or a reception at the MIT president’s house. For Valentine’s Day 2025, the MIT Alumni Association has rounded up a new crop of love stories from around the Institute. |
| MIT engineers develop a fully 3D-printed electrospray engine Ideal for propelling tiny satellites, the lightweight devices could be produced on board a spacecraft and cost much less than traditional thrusters. |  |
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| When humans and AI work best together — and when each is better alone Research finds the combo of humans and AI working together can outperform humans acting on their own, but not AI on its own. |  |
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| Mapping mRNA through its life cycle within a cell Xiao Wang’s studies of how and where RNA is translated could lead to the development of better RNA therapeutics and vaccines. |  |
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| Cleaning up critical minerals and materials production, using microwave plasma With technology developed at MIT, 6K is helping to bring critical materials production back to the U.S. without toxic byproducts. |  |
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| New method enables ultrafast protein labeling of tens of millions of densely packed cells A tissue processing advance can label proteins at the level of individual cells across large samples just as fast and uniformly as in dissociated single cells. |  |
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| Championing mental health for college students Joshua Li ’07 helps to lead Uwill, a mental-health and wellness service provider for college students. |  |
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| MIT’s new collision-proof tech can control 1000s of drones, cars simultaneously // Interesting Engineering MIT engineers developed a training method to help ensure the safe operation of multiagent systems, including robots, search-and-rescue drones, and self-driving cars. |
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| Why economists got free trade with China so wrong // NPR’s Planet Money Professor David Autor discusses his working paper exploring “what happened to American communities after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001,” also known as the “China Shock.” Autor and colleagues found that while regions impacted by the China Shock did eventually recover, the people hurt by it did not. |
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| The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange // New Scientist MIT physicists measured kinetic inductance for two layers of stacked and twisted graphene and found that the superconducting current is much “stiffer,” or resisting of change, than current theories of superconductivity predict. |
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| MIT launches Artfinity Festival by opening new music building // The Boston Globe MIT’s Artfinity Festival kicks off Saturday, Feb. 15, with a celebration of the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building and Thomas Tull Concert Hall, featuring a free afternoon open house and evening concert. |
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| | | Feb. 11 was National Inventors Day, honoring individuals who improve the world through their inventions. We shine a spotlight on Sangeeta Bhatia, the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, who holds numerous patents for her advances in biotechnology. Bhatia’s inventions address complex problems in the areas of drug toxicity, tissue regeneration, cancer therapeutics, noninvasive diagnostics, and infectious disease. For her inventions, she was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize and elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. |
 | | | | One of my favorite things about MIT is how I learn something new in every conversation with my peers. | | —Julia Schneider, MIT junior in electrical engineering and computer science |
| | | Artfinity brings 80 performing and visual arts events to MIT in a celebration of creativity and community, all free and open to the public. The festival launches today with the opening of the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building; features a series of events from Feb. 28 - March 16; and concludes with two cornerstone events: a public lecture by 2025 Eugene McDermott Award recipient Es Devlin on May 1, and a concert by Grammy-winning rapper and MIT Visiting Scholar Lupe Fiasco on May 2. |
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