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DMSE Class of 2026 urged to keep pushing limits after MIT
Undergraduate and graduate students who mastered rigorous subjects, advanced research in fields ranging from semiconductors to medical devices, and even founded companies were urged during MIT’s commencement festivities…
Learning to teach, learning to discover
Nik Sandu points to a graph on the whiteboard in a seventh-grade science class. “According to the graph, what is the energy of the ball?” she asks, gently waving…
Solving hard problems in soft electronics
A crepe cake.That’s how Camille Cunin describes the polymer-metal “sandwiches” that became a highlight of her doctoral thesis at MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE). Over…
Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments
What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard? In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini…
MIT NEET students install solar-powered charging station on campus, resurrecting an MIT tradition
Students enrolled in MIT’s New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program recently collaborated across academic disciplines to design and construct a solar-powered charging station. Positioned in a quiet campus courtyard,…
MIT students develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice
A spray-on coating to keep power lines standing through an ice storm may not be the obvious fix for winter outages—but it’s exactly the kind of innovation that…
The brain power behind sustainable AI
How can you use science to build a better gingerbread house?That was something Miranda Schwacke spent a lot of time thinking about. The MIT graduate student in the…
DMSE senior turns fish scales into biodegradable plastic
Sometimes the answers to seemingly intractable environmental problems are found in nature itself. Take the growing challenge of plastic waste. Jacqueline Prawira, a senior in the Department of Materials…
Jenna Houle ’25 receives Henry Ford II Scholar Award
Jenna Houle ‘25, a recent graduate from the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, received the 2025 Henry Ford II Scholar Award.During her time at…
Four from MIT named 2025 Goldwater Scholars
Four MIT rising seniors have been selected to receive a 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, including Avani Ahuja and Jacqueline Prawira in the School of Engineering and Julianna Lian…