Author Archives: Meghan Harrington
DMSE lecturer brings community wishes to life in Boston sculpture
Boston got its own good luck charm, “Amulet,” a 19-foot-tall tangle of organic spires installed in City Hall Plaza and embedded with the wishes, hopes, and prayers of…
Tuller honored for world-leading work in solid-state ionics
Professor Harry L. Tuller has received the Senior Scientist Award of the International Society of Solid State Ionics (ISSI), the most prestigious award of the ISSI.The professor of…
Meet a U.S. start-up trying to break China’s rare-earth monopoly
New York Times reporter Rebecca Elliott spotlights Phoenix Tailings, a startup co-founded by DMSE alumni Tomás Villalón ’14 and Michelle Chao ’14 that is developing a sustainable process for…
Eighteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27
At MIT, a strong spirit of mentorship shapes how students learn, collaborate, and imagine the future. In a time of accelerating change — from breakthroughs in artificial intelligence…
A new lens on humanity
When the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) launched in fall 2024, it was designed to elevate scholars at the frontiers of human-centered research and education, and to provide them…
MIT researchers crack secrets of proton movement in metal oxides with new model
DMSE Professors Bilge Yildiz, Ju Li, and other researchers at MIT have developed a new physical model that can help “improve predictions of proton mobility across a wide…
This ancient construction site in the ruins of Pompeii is revealing new secrets about the 2,000-year-old recipe for Roman concrete
A new paper by Professor Admir Masic, DMSE alum Ellie Vaserman, and colleagues details their new findings on the specific ingredients used by ancient Romans to develop durable…
Introducing the Minerals Stewardship Consortium at MIT
Mining provides the raw materials that form the backbone of many critical sectors, including construction and infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, and energy. Despite the vast significance that the extraction…
This startup makes ammonia by turning the planet into a chemical reactor
As an ingredient in fertilizer, ammonia keeps the world fed—and researchers are exploring ways it could someday power homes or vehicles. But producing it today relies heavily on…
What makes a good proton conductor?
A number of advanced energy technologies — including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and an emerging class of low-power electronics — use protons as the key charge carrier. Whether or…