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MIT students combat climate anxiety through extracurricular teams

MIT students combat climate anxiety through extracurricular teams

The MIT Electric Vehicle Team, Sustainable Engine Team, Solar Electric Vehicle Team, Motorsports Team, First Nations Launch Team, and Arcturus are each doing their part to improve the health of our planet.

Keeping the cosmos clean

Keeping the cosmos clean

MIT PhD student Allan Shtofenmakher wants to keep space sustainable.

Engineering proteins to treat cancer

Engineering proteins to treat cancer

PhD student Oscar Molina seeks new ways to assemble proteins into targeted cancer therapies, while also encouraging his fellow first-generation graduate students.

For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)

For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)

Mechatronics combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about design.

Designing better delivery for medical therapies

Designing better delivery for medical therapies

MD/PhD student Sayo Eweje seeks to develop new technologies for delivering RNA and protein therapies directly to the body’s cells.

Making a measurable economic impact

Making a measurable economic impact

Saeed Miganeh’s work at MIT is helping him answer important questions about designing effective programs for poverty mitigation and economic growth in African countries.

Uphill battles: Across the country in 75 days

Uphill battles: Across the country in 75 days

Amulya Aluru ’23, MEng ’24 and the MIT Spokes have spent the summer spreading science, over 3,000 miles on two wheels.

3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield

3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield

Rising senior and Army ROTC cadet Alexander Edwards and Aneal Krishnan ’02 discuss a new UROP fellowship with the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.

Creating connection with science communication

Creating connection with science communication

Sophie Hartley wants to help people learn about the importance of natural resources and land management through science writing.