A new onboarding technique can help workers collaborate more effectively with AI assistants. The process finds situations where the human trusts the AI either too much or too little, then develops rules about them and creates training exercises to guide the user.

PhD student Isabel Naranjo De Candido is keen to accelerate the adoption of nuclear energy and make it more scalable. She works to make small, modular reactors more efficient throughout their lifecycle, from building to operating to decommissioning.

Chemists have developed a way to make light-emitting molecules known as acenes more stable, so they can be tuned to produce different colors. The team built molecules that emit red, orange, yellow, green, or blue light and could be deployed in a variety of applications.

For decades, Lotte Bailyn has called for changes in how work is organized. She has argued that organizations should rethink the design of work to better accommodate employees’ personal lives and the needs of two-career and single-parent families.

“I think we need more science heroes,” documentarian Alex Rivest PhD ’11 says. “To me, the people whose stories I’m trying to tell are heroes, because they follow their passion, they see something that they can’t unsee, and then they fight for it.”

Across campus, more than 100 resident peer mentors serve as guides to resources, encourage community, and give all kinds of advice. “If first-years have a question, I can point them in the right direction, even if I don’t have the answer,” says junior Kyna McGill.