MIT chemist designs novel molecules that could be used for quantum sensing and communication; visiting scholar Moriba Jah is also awarded, for work on space sustainability.

MIT alumnus and two others honored for research on the role of banks in the economy, including during financial crises.

The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction.

Selection as LSA Fellow marks the highest honor in the field of linguistics.

PhD student Alex Greene studies superconducting quantum computing systems while rounding out their busy schedule with water sanitation projects.

The Institute’s pooled investments lost 5.3 percent last year; endowment stands at $24.6 billion.

President L. Rafael Reif discusses the state of innovation in America. “The U.S. is still innovating the way it once did, the problem is that the way it once did is not good enough now,” Reif says. “The global ecosystem is much more competitive. Others are doing very, very well. Others are catching up or running ahead of us. And we have to reassess our innovation ecosystem to figure out how to fine tune it to adapt to this new reality.”

Professor Laura Kiessling discusses the work of Stanford University Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Massachusetts native, who is the daughter of Professor Emeritus William Bertozzi and a previous winner of the Lemelson-MIT Prize, has “changed the way people think about doing science,” says Kiessling. “There have been further advances, but they all build on her work.”

Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers and his colleague used multiple measures of earnings to trace income inequality in the U.S. since the 1980s and found that “income inequality peaked in 2012 and has held steady or perhaps even fallen since.”

Milena Pagán ’11 discusses her inspiration for opening Little Sister Café, which is bringing a taste of Puerto Rico to Providence, Rhode Island. “This food is authentic to my experience, which is I lived half of my life in Puerto Rico,” says Pagán, “so I’m just putting all of it together, and in that sense it’s very authentic.”