Updates from campus: Read the latest from MIT and its leaders regarding events on campus.
Drawn to hard problems, Zachary Hartwig is advancing a new approach to commercial fusion energy. “There’s something very attractive to me about the magnitude of the fusion challenge,” he says. “It’s part of the reason I’ve stayed in this field.”
New solar panel installations on four buildings are “just one part of our broader strategy to reduce MIT’s carbon footprint and transition to clean energy,” says Joe Higgins, vice president for campus services and stewardship.
Catherine De Wolf SM ’14 PhD ’17 is using AI and other tech to take stock of building infrastructure and match new construction with materials from structures being demolished.
Astronomers have found the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. The team’s detection method, which identified 138 space rocks ranging from bus- to stadium-sized, could aid in tracking potential impacts.
MIT is strengthening collaborations between researchers in the life sciences and engineering to take on pressing health challenges. MIT HEALS will bring together researchers from across campus to find new solutions to challenges in health care.
Julian Charrière’s first U.S. public art commission, “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More,” was recently installed at Building 55 as three distinct works, each examining the relationship between humans and the natural materials around us.
As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program. “Thanks to MIT, I have the knowledge and tools to tackle real-world challenges,” he says.