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Rachel Chae and Sihao Huang ’22 will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

The associate professor of architecture envisions construction components that can be printed and shipped.

Learning is a lifelong pursuit for 76-year-old Mexican tech executive Jesus Sotomayor, who recently earned a professional certificate in digital transformation from MIT Professional Education.

MIT researchers developed an ultra-thin solar cell, one-hundredth the weight of conventional panels, that could transform almost any surface into a power generator. The material could potentially generate “18 times more power-per-kilogram compared to traditional solar technology. Not only that, but its production methods show promising potential for scalability and major manufacturing.”

Elise Strobach PhD ’20 — co-founder and CEO of AeroShield Materials, a company developing superinsulating windows — is one of the first three recipients of funding from the new MassVentures fund for deep-tech startups with a focus on underserved founders or those based in underserved regions outside the Boston-Cambridge area. “We want to do cool things that have big impact,” says Strobach. “The minute I first visited Massachusetts, I just really felt that, ‘Wow, this is a place where that can happen.’”