Engineering with art + Hammond wins Killian Award + Hart to lead MechE

The chemical engineer is honored for her work designing polymers and nanomaterials with wide-ranging applications in medicine and energy.

A leader in manufacturing science and technology, Hart will become department head effective July 1.

A new machine-learning model makes more accurate predictions about ocean currents, which could help with tracking plastic pollution and oil spills, and aid in search and rescue.

At MIT, the Massachusetts state senator describes the commonwealth’s progress on tackling global warming, and remains optimistic despite short-term delays.

Professor Stuart Madnick explores how artificial intelligence could make scamming easier and more dangerous. Madnick notes that AI “raises the level of skepticism that we must have substantially. Procedures will have to be put in place to validate the authenticity of who you are dealing with.”

MIT researchers find interactions between people from different economic backgrounds have dropped significantly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. “The phenomenon could hurt low-income people in direct ways — they’ll lose connections to better-off people — and indirect ways.”