Ensuring optimal power flow in an electric grid is becoming more difficult. But a new problem-solving tool finds power solutions much faster than traditional approaches, while making sure the solutions don’t violate system constraints.

Bill Fienup ’03, SM ’05 cofounded mHub, a Chicago-area business incubator, accelerator, and consulting center that supports entrepreneurs with big ideas but little access to product development and manufacturing services.

New research reveals what happens in the brain during attention lapses caused by sleep deprivation: A wave of cerebrospinal fluid flows out of the brain. This process typically occurs during sleep and helps to wash away waste products that have built up during the day.

Focusing on the risk of nuclear escalation, Caitlin Talmadge studies militaries’ on-the-ground capabilities and how they are influenced by political circumstances. “It’s important for me to do scholarship that speaks to real-world problems,” she says.

In a world without MIT, radar wouldn’t have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we’d lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine?

​Since its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy — and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.