Economics PhD student Whitney Zhang investigates how companies’ technological and managerial decisions affect workers across the pay spectrum. “We have to remember the people whose lives are impacted by business operations and legislation,” she says.
A new method helps researchers steer generative AI models to design breakthrough materials for quantum computing and other applications. “We don’t need 10 million new materials to change the world. We just need one really good material,” Mingda Li says.
US Air Force Maj. Adam Fuhrmann ’11 is among 10 individuals chosen from a field of 8,000 applicants for NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class. The AeroAstro alumnus participated in Air Force ROTC and the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program at MIT.
For the nation’s military bases, being ready for power outages is a matter of national security. A Lincoln Laboratory team ensures mission readiness through exercises testing the ability of backup systems and service members to work through power failures.
A few scribbles on an MIT whiteboard have yielded a potentially transformational treatment that was recently approved by the US FDA for an aggressive form of bladder cancer. The idea arose more than a decade ago in the lab of Michael Cima at the Koch Institute.
In a world without MIT, radar wouldn’t have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we’d lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine?
Since its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy — and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.