Lung nanoparticles + greener concrete + purpose vs. profit + women of MIT

MIT engineers discover new carbonation pathways for creating more environmentally friendly concrete.

Leaders at the MIT Sloan Retail Conference describe practices that support stakeholder and societal value.

Eleven new faculty members join six of the school’s academic departments and institutes.

MIT experts in early language development corroborate a long-debated theory about presupposed content in sentences.

Following an influential career at NASA, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro SM ’20, PhD ’22 now shapes space policy as a top White House advisor.

In discussing the origins of the Boston accent, Professor Edward Flemming explains how the “softening” and eventual dropping of “r” sounds appears to have spread from the south of England through ports up and down the eastern coast of America, influencing the accents found in cities like Charleston and New York City.

MIT researchers have developed a low-cost air quality sensor that can be 3D printed using open-source instructions and used by people around the world.

Adjunct Professor Emeritus Melvin “Mel” King, a political activist, former Massachusetts state representative, and the first Black person to reach a Boston mayoral general election, has died at 94. “[In 1971], he founded the Community Fellows Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became an adjunct professor of urban studies and planning.”

Popular Science spotlights a sampling of the winning images from this year’s MIT Koch Institute Image Awards, an annual competition showcasing some of the images produced as part of life science and biomedical research at MIT.