A variety of climate- and sustainability-focused companies with MIT connections have their sights set on achieving global impact.

Ahead of Juneteenth, MIT Sloan lecturer Malia Lazu spoke with the Boston Globe about what Black freedom looks like. “Liberation is a culmination of honoring the past, being healthy in the present and curious about the future,” she said.

Inspired by the Japanese art of paper-folding, engineers have created a new type of stent to deliver drugs. “This technology could be applied in essentially any tubular organ,” says Giovanni Traverso — such as the GI or respiratory tract.

Via @MITDiversity on Twitter: The leaders of @LGBT_Grad answered what #pride means to them: For @FormanFunction, "Pride is a celebration, a memorial, and a communal catharsis."

Lily Bui SM ’16, PhD ’20 is a disaster management specialist at the Pacific Disaster Center. While severe weather makes her job “high pressure and rapid paced,” she loves being able to “help people make decisions when they really matter the most.”

Institute Professor Suzanne Berger spoke with the Boston Globe on how to ensure that R&D spending helps strengthen small and midsize companies. “The focus can’t just be on large firms at the top of the manufacturing chain,” she said.