MIT is strengthening collaborations between researchers in the life sciences and engineering to take on pressing health challenges. MIT HEALS will bring together researchers from across campus to find new solutions to challenges in health care. 

Julian Charrière’s first U.S. public art commission, “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More,” was recently installed at Building 55 as three distinct works, each examining the relationship between humans and the natural materials around us. 

Junior Alexis Boykin, with five national championships, is one of the most decorated athletes in MIT Track and Field history. The chemistry and biology major says one benefit of being a student-athlete is “just wanting to be better and better.”

Chemical engineers have designed an environmentally friendly alternative to the microbeads used in some health and beauty products. These particles could also find other applications, like encapsulating nutrients such as vitamin A.

As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program. “Thanks to MIT, I have the knowledge and tools to tackle real-world challenges,” he says.

For Daron Acemoglu, who has long studied technology’s impact on society, a key question about AI is whether we can shape it to aid workers rather than just replacing jobs. He asks: “Where will the new tasks for humans with generative AI come from?”