EAPS PhD student Joanna Millstein is studying glacier dynamics to clarify how melting ice sheets will affect the planet. “There’s huge uncertainty in all sea-level-rise predictions,” she says. “We’ve got to figure out how to narrow the error bars.”
Retired engineer Lynn Yamada Davis ’77, the social media personality behind the wildly successful “Cooking With Lynja,” was recently named one of Forbes’ 2022 Top Creators. Her online success has drawn 16 million followers on TikTok and YouTube.
Via @MITEdgerton on Twitter: “Introducing: @MIT Monopoly! Designed by Interphase EDGE/x students Jenna C Blair ’26, Aliyah K Chutkan ’26, Brianna Roundtree ’26, and Pablo F Rodriguez ’26, this MIT-themed monopoly board lights up when properties are purchased.”
Carbon dioxide is available in abundance, but has not yet been widely used to generate valuable products. Chemical engineer Ariel Furst is leading efforts to employ biological materials, including DNA, to transform this widespread waste product.
Via @MIT on Twitter: “Have a great first day of classes, @MITstudents and @MITGradStudents. Let’s go!”
PhD student Hao Zhang has found that firms linked by supply chains — including those that cross borders — also share political goals. “Interests are blurred now,” he says, “because industries are interconnected by production relationships.”
Fusion physics pioneer and MIT climate change leader Anne White hopes to help “save the world with nuclear.”