Senior Daisy Wang interweaves biological engineering and women’s and gender studies to address social problems. Her experience as a synchronized swimmer taught her that one person’s challenge is everyone’s challenge.

Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 founded Seron Electronics to democratize scientific experimentation. With the company’s equipment, which precisely controls electric current, voltage, and power, “anyone can conduct high-quality experiments,” he says.

​​David Autor spoke with the New York Times on AI’s potential to help people take on more highly skilled work. “I do think there is value in imagining a positive outcome,” he said. “This technology is a tool, and how we decide to use it is up to us.”

“Protein design is a hard problem because the mapping from DNA sequence to protein structure and function is really complex,” Ila Fiete says. She and her colleagues devised a computational approach that makes it easier to predict mutations leading to useful proteins.

“So much of what I’m trying to teach is really for us to just use the literary arts as an excuse to come together and celebrate being alive,” Joshua Bennett says of course 21W.756 (Writing and Reading Poems: Nature Poetry).

Graduate student Dhruv Gaur spoke with Boston.com about his viral message expressing support for Alex Trebek when he competed on “Jeopardy” in 2019, and his experience being invited back for the show’s first invitational tournament.