Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, wants to help people prepare for natural disasters. “People are reactive,” she says. “But I think we can have a larger impact by anticipating and designing for these issues beforehand.”
As a young boy growing up in Ghana, Kwami Williams ’12 loved breaking things down to see how the parts fit together. Decades later, Williams has brought that analytical thinking to a supply chain for products from the moringa tree.
Via @mitalumni on Instagram: “Happy 109th birthday, Tim the Beaver! This photo of a snowy Tim was taken yesterday by current MIT student Yuhao Jeremy Zhu”
The computers that power self-driving cars could become a huge driver of carbon emissions, a new study has found. Researchers say that if these vehicles are widely adopted, increased hardware efficiency will be needed to keep emissions in check.
Karenna Groff ’22 has been named the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year. The soccer player and graduate student in biological engineering is the second MIT student-athlete and the sixth Division III student-athlete ever to receive this honor.
Via @mitsap on Instagram: “Congratulations to Christopher Joshua Benton, an MIT Arts, Culture & Technology student, on being awarded an Emerging Visionary Grant of $30,000 - one of five awards given to talented Black artists, designers, and small business by Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum.”
Engineers managing river restoration and coastal erosion now have a more accurate way to predict how much sediment a fluid can push across a granular bed. The shape of the sediment grains turns out to be a key factor in the new formula.