Senior Zaina Moussa’s path toward a career as a physician-scientist has included embracing her different cultures and varied interests.

MIT researchers have determined the virus’ protein-coding gene set and analyzed new mutations’ likelihood of helping the virus adapt.

Finance scholar is granted highest distinction offered by Institute faculty.

Student-led efforts preserve an iconic campus landmark for future generations of education and research.

Fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.

Professor Esther Duflo discusses her views on GDP, financial incentives, and how to encourage women to pursue careers in economics. “One of the mistakes made by economists in general was to agree collectively that GDP, and perhaps the stock market, is how we acknowledge success in a country,” says Duflo. “GDP measures the value added in a country, but life is so much more than that.”

MIT researchers have developed a new light-sensitive paint, dubbed ChromoUpdate, that makes it easy for people to change the color and pattern on a wide variety of objects.

Research by professors Emery Brown and Earl Miller examines how neurons in the brain operate as “consciousness emerges and recedes — and how doctors could better control it.” The work “could make anesthesia safer, by allowing anesthesiologists who use the EEG to more precisely control drug dosages for people who are unconscious.”

A study co-authored by MIT researchers examining the short- and long-term effects of Boston’s universal public preschool program finds that pre-K has a substantial impact on student behavior. Pre-K seems to “improve children’s social and emotional skills and help them mature more than it helps in a narrow academic sense.”