​​A new paper-based test measures neutralizing antibodies in a blood sample and could help people decide what protections they should take against infection.

Gradiant, a startup founded by Anurag Bajpayee PhD ’12, SM ’08 and Prakash Govindan PhD ’12, is helping to save water as droughts spread. The company has developed a system that purifies water by mimicking rainfall cycles.

The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how to use it. “Cash is one of the few interventions that allows people to meet their own needs,” says co-director Rohit Wanchoo MBA ’08.

​​Urbanist Justin Steil studies how law and policy are employed to replicate social divisions in land use. As he says, “The biggest theme that runs through my work is: How is power exercised through control of space, and access to particular places?”

Via @mitpics on Instagram: “This summer, MechE junior Katherine ‘Ebby’ Brennan is analyzing spacesuit range of motion and mobility characteristics of the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU Spacesuit) as part of NASA's Anthropometry and Biomechanics Facility at Johnson Space Center.”

To celebrate the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 — which provides $52 billion for U.S. semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing — Sen. Elizabeth Warren paid a visit to MIT’s facility for nanoscale science and engineering.