C16 Biosciences, co-founded by MIT alumni, has developed a microbe-based alternative to palm oil, whose production destroys tropical forests and increases CO2 emissions. “We need to find a way to reduce our reliance on deforestation products,” David Heller ’18 says.
Via @mitathletics on Instagram: “For the eighth straight season and ninth overall, @MIT has claimed the @newmacsports Women's Presidents Cup! Well done by all of our student-athletes, coaches and staff and congratulations to you all!”
Breaking boundaries is on-brand for author and LGBTQ+ activist Parmesh Shahani SM ’05 — and it began in CMS/W: “I was drawn to the intensity, the excitement, and the fact that it was a humanities program in the middle of a technology institute,” he says.
While developing targeted drug-delivery methods, PhD student Charlie Farquhar has spearheaded programs within the chemistry department to encourage inclusion, belonging, and collaboration. “We should all share in this work, and then it’s not a burden at all,” they say.
The Voxel Lab gives students a space to build entirely new devices for making sound or to hack existing technology in unexpected ways. “Every small change that we make to an instrument dramatically transforms how that instrument might be used,” says Ian Hattwick.
Morningside Academy of Design Fellow AJ Perez ’13, MNG ’14, PhD ’23 is exploring the use of recycled plastic to create housing for people in need.
In his poem “America Will Be,” Joshua Bennett pays tribute to his father, who lived through the violence of the Jim Crow era yet “somehow still believes in this grand blood-stained / experiment still votes still prays that his children might / make a life unlike any he has ever seen.”