| Systems Engineering | | | | | | A software platform developed by alumni-founded Nominal helps firms build and test complex systems like fighter jets, nuclear reactors, rockets, and robots. The startup is working to accelerate products critical for national security and more. Full story via MIT News → |
| MIT engineers uncover a surprising reason why tissues are flexible or rigid Watery fluid between cells plays a major role, offering new insights into how organs and tissues adapt to aging, diabetes, cancer, and more. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Nth Cycle is bringing critical metals refining to the U.S. Co-founded by Professor Desirée Plata, the company is already producing nickel and cobalt from battery scrap in Ohio. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Summer 2025 reading from MIT Enjoy recent titles published in the past 12 months by MIT faculty and staff. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Closing in on superconducting semiconductors Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers created a superconducting circuit that could one day replace semiconductor components in quantum and high-performance computing systems. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26 Ranking at the top for the 14th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 11 subject areas. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Students and staff work together for MIT’s first “No Mow May” With advocacy from GSC Sustain, the No Mow May project supports pollinator habitats and provides educational opportunities. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| HIV: Supercharged vaccine could protect well with just one dose // Newsweek MIT researchers have developed an HIV vaccine that could offer strong protection with just one injection. Full story via Newsweek→ |
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| What happens when you use ChatGPT to write an essay? // USA Today A study by MIT researchers finds individuals who relied solely on ChatGPT to write essays had “lower levels of brain activity and presented less original writing.” Full story via USA Today→ |
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| Innovative once-weekly capsule helps quell schizophrenia symptoms // HealthDay In a new paper, Associate Professor Giovanni Traverso and his colleagues highlight the results of a clinical trial that showed “a pill taken just once a week, gradually releasing medicine from within the stomach, can greatly simplify the drug schedule faced by schizophrenia patients.” Full story via HealthDay→ |
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| | | The open space connecting Massachusetts Avenue with Hockfield Court, in the heart of MIT’s campus, is now the L. Rafael Reif Innovation Corridor, in honor of the Institute’s 17th president. At a dedication ceremony last week, Reif’s colleagues, friends, and family (including wife Chris, pictured above) gathered to honor his legacy and unveil a marker for the walkway that was previously known as North Corridor or “the Outfinite.” “With his signature combination of new-world thinking and old-world charm, and as a grand thinker and doer, Rafael left an indelible mark on MIT,” said President Sally Kornbluth. Full story via MIT News → |
| Lessons Learned | | | | Caroline Boudoux PhD ’07 shares: “Twenty-five years ago, I packed my Jeep Wrangler and drove south for six hours to start a life-defining journey: a doctoral program in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. My old ride was filled in equal parts with books and apprehensions. Soon I would discover a campus where not even the sky was the limit, and where I’d learn the name for what I was feeling: impostor syndrome. Today I mentor PhD students at Polytechnique Montréal. With them — and you — I share what I wish I had known when I first moved into Edgerton House. These are 12 things every PhD student should hear early, even if they often go without saying.” Read the list via MIT Technology Review → |
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| | | MIT researchers work regularly with colleagues at universities across the U.S. to devise new solutions to complex challenges. These connections demonstrate how shared expertise can amplify discovery and accelerate solutions that benefit communities across America and beyond. One recent example of such intercollegiate collaboration was a project in which researchers at MIT, Stanford University, and the University of Houston combined machine knitting and pneumatic actuation to develop a haptic sleeve that simulates realistic touch — and could one day be used for applications such as teleoperation, navigation, and more. Full story via Stanford Report → |
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