Environmental leadership + program debugging + women in business

Developed at MIT, D2X is a new tool that makes it easy to debug any domain-specific programming language.

Principal Research Scientist Audun Botterud tackles a range of cross-cutting problems — from energy market interactions to designing batteries — to get closer to a decarbonized power grid.

The founder and CEO of HERmesa, an investment firm for women-founded startups, reflects on lessons learned throughout her career in management.

Professor Ronitt Rubinfeld has been named a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, “one of the most sought-after honors in academe and culture.”

Postdoc Saverio Cambioni discusses NASA’s DART mission, which was aimed at testing a method to protect Earth in the event of an asteroid impact threat. “DART showed that it is technologically possible to intercept and impact a sub-kilometer asteroid, with limited prior knowledge of its shape and surface properties,” Cambioni explains. “This is great as it means that we do not need a mission to characterize a hazardous asteroid before sending another mission to deflect its trajectory.”