“We are in a science and technology race for the future,” President L. Rafael Reif told Marketplace, regarding a bill to boost R&D spending. “It is with science and technology that we address things like Covid and the biggest challenges the world has.”

PhD student Mallory Ringham uses an optical sensor to assess oceans’ chemical changes — focusing on how a changing climate is impacting ocean chemistry. “I do my work to be a part of the climate change solution,” she says.

MIT-Ayiti.net, a digital platform of MIT-Haiti developed by professors Michel DeGraff and Haynes Miller, is introduced in a new music video developed with Haitian composer, rapper, and musician Roosevelt Saillant, better known as B.I.C. Tizon Dife.

In its first year of operation, the CHIME telescope detected more than 500 mysterious flashes called fast radio bursts — quadrupling the number of known events. Scientists now hope to pin down the causes of such ultrabright, ultrafast signals.

STEM + humanities = a framework for understanding the world: Natasha Joglekar ’21 is eager to apply her MIT education, with a major in computer science and biology and a minor in women’s and gender studies, to a career in medical research.

MIT’s Commencement saw the premiere of “Diary Of A Pandemic Year,” composed by Jamshied Sharifi ’83, conducted by Director of Wind Ensembles Frederick Harris Jr., and featuring student poetry compiled and edited by poet and lecturer Erica Funkhouser.