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Three MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows

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To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays

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Interactive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions

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January 29, 2025 MIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each day

Gradiant, co-founded by Anurag Bajpayee SM ’08, PhD ’12 and Prakash Govindan PhD ’12, builds custom water recycling, treatment, and purification solutions.

January 28, 2025 How to make oxygen on the moon

PhD student Palak Patel came up with an experimental molten regolith electrolysis system, for extracting oxygen and metal from the lunar soil.

January 27, 2025 Real People, Real Solutions at D-Lab

D-Lab students innovate to help solve challenges in communities worldwide.

January 21, 2025 For MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Faith Brooks, the sky’s the limit

Faith Brooks, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, has had a clear dream since the age of 4: to become a pilot.“At around 8 years old, my neighbor knew I wanted to fly and...

January 14, 2025 Three MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars

Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii will spend 2025-26 at Tsinghua University in China studying global affairs.

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Next Generation Electronics

Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical neural network and produce cheap semiconductor wafers – technologies that could help bring the artificial intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices.

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Life as a Teaching Tool

Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi finds inspiration while downhill biking at Highland Mountain Bike Park in New Hampshire.

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Water is Life

As overpopulation and lack of rainfall fuel a crisis-level need in rural India for affordable drinking water, PhD candidate Natasha Wright and Assistant Professor Amos Winter work to design a low-cost desalination system, guided by insight from their extensive in-the-field research.

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