With a joint major in computer science and molecular biology, senior Mercy Oladipo is building tools to address disparities in health care. The major “helped me feel like I could do whatever I want and chart my own path,” she says.

Via @mitpics on Instagram: “You never know when President Sally Kornbluth might stop by! Here she is with senior Victoria Yang in Ariel Furst’s lab in @‌MITChemE.”

The Wall Street Journal covered an effort to determine how to twist apart an Oreo so the filling sticks to both wafers, writing that the research “was a fun, easy way to make … physics and engineering work more accessible to the general public.”

Counterfeit seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields and threaten food security. Trackable silk labels — each with a randomly created code that cannot be duplicated — could help.

Robert Metcalfe ’69 has been awarded the A.M. Turing Award, often called the “Nobel Prize of computing,” for his invention of Ethernet, one of the earliest and most extensively utilized networking technologies.

Mariel Borowitz ’06 collaborates with policymakers on space security, open access to Earth satellite data, and space situational awareness.