AI aids materials design + remembering Mel King + Red Sox honor MIT athletes

The three-fingered robotic gripper can “feel” with great sensitivity along the full length of each finger – not just at the tips.

Expert in computational reactor physics to succeed Professor Anne White as department head.

Beloved mentor and colleague, who died at 94 on March 28, leaves behind a profound legacy at MIT, in Boston, and beyond.

MIT’s dean of admissions and student financial services talks about helping rural students better understand their options for going to college.

Professor Amy Finkelstein delves into why insurance markets are broken, how they can be fixed and her new book, “Risky Business.” She explains that “one thing I hadn’t realized ‘til I started working in economics is there’s another type of market frailty that’s really important, that’s the subject of a lot of government policy, but that most people just don’t seem to be as aware of. And that’s the problem of selection. And it’s front and center in insurance markets.”

“The Sun Queen,” a new documentary on PBS, highlights the life of the late Professor Emerita Mária Telkes and her contributions to developing solar energy. Telkes is known for her “work on the 1948 Dover Sun House, a solar-heated model home created by an all-female team.”