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Spotlight: May 20, 2025

In a world without MIT, radar wouldn’t have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we’d lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine? Watch video

Research and Education that Matter

“MIT Sloan was my first and only choice,” says MBA student David Brown, who served eight years in the US Army as a helicopter pilot, platoon leader, and troop commander. He has co-founded a company to cut emissions from tough-to-decarbonize industries.

Daniela Rus spoke with the Wall Street Journal about her vision for robots as soft and flexible: “I really wanted to broaden our view of what a robot is. If you have a mechanism that’s made out of paper and that moves, is that a robot or not?”

In class 15.362 (Engineering Innovation: Global Security Systems) students hear from military officers and others about the realities of combat, and design prototype solutions. “As far as I know, this is the only class in the world that works in this way,” Gene Keselman says.

The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies reach patients faster. CoFlo Medical’s drug-injection device could administer treatments more quickly to people with cancer, autoimmune diseases, and more.

Supporting US Army missions, MIT Lincoln Laboratory's new radar system, WiSPR, extends signal range for long-distance radar and communication. “Much innovation is happening in the commercial sector, and we leveraged those advances,” Greg Lyons says.

​Since its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy — and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.