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.

Their technique could allow chip manufacturers to produce next-generation transistors based on materials other than silicon.

MIT Medical Director Cecilia Stuopis says that while this is a time to be more vigilant, people should not panic.

Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters.

“Single-cell profiling” is helping neuroscientists see how disease affects major brain cell types and identify common, potentially targetable pathways.

GBH spotlights graduate student Karenna Groff ’22, recently named the NCAA Woman of the Year, and her efforts to make a difference both on and off the field, from her work as an EMT at MIT to her efforts to reduce maternal mortality in southern India.

Professor Heather Hendershot explores the growth of politically-biased news coverage, comparing Ted Baxter of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — a fictional news anchor more interested in personal fame than journalistic standards — to today’s pundits.

MIT researchers have found “fires started by people account for a majority of premature deaths related to inhalation of tiny smoke particles in the United States.”

Natalia Rodriguez ’09 discusses her work as a biomedical engineer focused on community health care. “I work to bring health technologies from the lab to the people, and I also work to bring the needs, the priorities and the strengths of communities back to engineers so they know who they’re designing for,” Rodriguez explains.