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PostOctober 22, 2021

Fifteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2021-23

The 2021-23 Committed to Caring honorees include: (Top row, left to right) Athulya Aravind, Mariana Arcaya, Angelika Amon, David Autor, Michael Birnbaum; (Middle row, left to right) Irmgard Bischofberger, Devin Bunten, Esther Duflo, Jeffrey Grossman, Janelle Knox-Hayes; (Bottom row, left to right) Karthish Manthiram, Miho Mazereeuw, Kerstin Perez, Arvind Satyanarayan, Ben Schneider.

PostOctober 22, 2021

At MIT, Nobel laureate Frances Arnold describes innovation by evolution

In her talk, “Bringing New Chemistry to Life,” Frances Arnold described her decades-long effort to “compose” with DNA, utilizing the tools of nature to generate enzymes “that work better than what nature has provided.”

PostOctober 22, 2021

Saving seaweed with machine learning

Charlene Xia, pictured at the MIT Sailing Pavilion, tests her microbiome monitoring system in the Charles River.

PostOctober 18, 2021

How marsh grass protects shorelines

A new MIT study provides greater detail about how thes protective benefits of marsh plants work under real-world conditions shaped by waves and currents. The simulated plants used in lab experiments were designed based on Spartina alterniflora, which is a common coastal marsh plant.

PostOctober 4, 2021

School of Engineering third quarter 2021 awards

Eighteen members of the MIT engineering faculty received awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence in the past calendar quarter.

PostSeptember 29, 2021

The language of change

Philosophy matters to Conti not only because he is interested in ethics, but because he believes that philosophy of language, which can illuminate how humans communicate, will help him advance convincing arguments on behalf of good climate policy.

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