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July 12, 2025
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Advanced Metals
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Foundation Alloy creates high-performance metals using a novel process that doesn’t rely on melting raw materials. The MIT alumni behind the company say its alloys can be made twice as strong as traditional metals with 10 times faster product development.
Top Headlines
From MIT, an instruction manual for turning research into startups
MIT Proto Ventures is publishing a venture studio playbook to catalyze innovation at research institutions.
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A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement
In a small clinical study, users of this prosthesis navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body.
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The high-tech wizardry of integrated photonics
PhD candidate Sabrina Corsetti builds photonic devices that manipulate light to enable previously unimaginable applications, like pocket-sized 3D printers.
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MIT engineers develop electrochemical sensors for cheap, disposable diagnostics
Electrodes coated with DNA could enable inexpensive tests with a long shelf-life, which could detect many diseases and be deployed in the doctor’s office or at home.
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New imaging technique reconstructs the shapes of hidden objects
By leveraging reflections from wireless signals like Wi-Fi, the system could allow robots to find and manipulate items that are blocked from view.
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Meet the new faculty members joining MIT Sloan in 2025
The new MIT Sloan faculty members are experts in data privacy, global economics, management, and consumer attention.
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#ThisisMIT
Kayla Tabb smiles with pizza slice and pans in background. Text via @‌mitaa: MIT alumna Kayla Tabb '18 runs an innovative lab out of the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library. "The Nutrition Lab is a space for us to be excited about food and cooking holistically, outside of counting calories," she says. https://bit.ly/3SnAsO9
In the Media
New MIT provost looks to build more bridges with CEOs // The Boston Globe
Provost Anantha Chandrakasan speaks about his new role and his goals for the Institute. “To be in the administration, you have to understand the perspectives of the individual faculty members, the students, and the postdocs,” he says.
The environmental impacts of generative AI // FOX 13 
Noman Bashir, a fellow with MIT’s Climate and Sustainability Consortium, discusses the environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence, and the benefits and challenges posed by the increasing use of AI tools.
Opinion: Saving the Bay State’s innovation economy // The Boston Herald
President Emeritus L. Rafael Reif and Alan M. Leventhal, founder of Beacon Capital Partners, underscore the importance of protecting Massachusetts’ research infrastructure, noting that the state’s life sciences sector alone supports 143,000 jobs.
Meet Your MIT Neighbor
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Name: Jay Stotsky
MIT affiliation: Systems and data analyst at Lincoln Laboratory
What you work on: A mix of data analysis, mathematical modeling, and creating graphics and presentations. I currently am working on a fairly broad range of projects ranging from analyzing the performance of radar systems to modeling economic changes in critical industries.
Why the laboratory is a good fit: I really enjoy the mix of projects that I am involved in at the laboratory and appreciate the opportunity to explore some very interesting data sets.
Favorite activities and interests outside of work: I have played piano for more than 25 years. I grew up playing classical piano, but now play a mix of classical and tango music. I got into bird-watching a few years ago. It is incredible how many species of birds there are in the U.S., even just locally. I am up to about 150 different species of birds that I have seen.
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Number of 2025 honorees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Great Immigrants, Great Americans award who hail from MIT: Moungi Bawendi and Simon Johnson PhD ’89, both MIT professors and Nobel laureates, and Priyamvada Natarajan ’90, ’91, SM ’11, a professor at Yale University
A Leader for All
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In this era of rapidly evolving global competition, MIT’s work is more critical than ever. MIT was founded with the belief that we serve a vital role in advancing the future. And like America itself, we don’t rest on past accomplishments but are always ready for the next big challenge. Together, we will continue to lead the world in innovation, science, and technology. We will continue to focus our endless curiosity, our best in class skills on the next big thing. What we create today ensures a better tomorrow for all of us.
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