Soccer bots + protein engineering + retirement crisis

With further development, the programmable system could be used in a range of applications including gene and cancer therapies.

Concrete Sustainability Hub Deputy Director Hessam AzariJafari is conducting vital research to investigate the impacts of concrete’s carbonation across its life cycle.

Congo Clothing Company, founded by Milain Fayulu SM ’22, funds job training for survivors of sexual violence.

The nation has launched a new retirement bond adapted from the work of Professor Robert Merton and Arun Muralidhar PhD ’92.

“State law requires Massachusetts to cut greenhouse gas emissions relative to 1990 levels by 50 percent by 2030 and by 85 percent by 2050,” writes Professor Christopher Knittel. “In short, we need to replace gasoline and natural gas with electricity. But how we price electricity is making this effort to address climate change harder.”

MIT researchers co-authored a paper in which they used honeybees to study the microbiome of cities. Since bees “tend to forage within a mile radius of their hives in urban areas, there’s valuable information about a city or even a neighborhood in the honey they produce, on their bodies and in the debris that lies at the bottom of hives.”