Joshua Reed-Diawuoh MBA ’20 is the founder and CEO of GRIA Food Company, which partners with companies that ethically source and process food in West Africa to support local food economies and help communities in the region more broadly.

Engineers found a way to manage the bubbles that form on electrodes during many industrial electrochemical processes, hampering the reactions. With new surface designs, electrodes and electrolyzers could become more energy-efficient and use fewer precious metals.

Via @mit_cheer on Instagram: “We had so much fun cheering on the participants of the @makingstridesboston Breast Cancer Walk! Let’s go Boston”

The MIT Energy and Climate Club mobilizes future leaders to address global climate issues. One of the largest MIT clubs, it sees itself as “the umbrella of all things related to energy and climate on campus.”

“Being able to make drinking water with renewables, without requiring battery storage, is a massive grand challenge. And we’ve done it,” Amos Winter says. His team’s solar-powered desalination system could provide communities with drinking water at low costs.

Victor Ambros ’75, PhD ’79 and Gary Ruvkun share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The pair, who worked together as postdocs at MIT, were honored for their discovery of microRNA, a class of molecules critical for gene regulation.