MIT Index

The brass rat

Facts and figures to sustain your inner geek

• by Matt Mahoney

MIT News feature

Working wonders

Offering good jobs doesn’t have to come at the expense of high profits, argues Sloan professor Zeynep Ton. Indeed, one leads to the other.

• by Michael Blanding

MIT News feature

The doctor of nearly lost causes

As head of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the National Institutes of Health, William Gahl ’72 takes on the baffling cases that drug companies won’t touch.

• by Georgina Gustin

From the president

The Nobel laureates of noble causes

Professors Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee exemplify the very best of MIT.

• by L. Rafael Reif

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Knotty by nature

A new mathematical model reveals which types of knots are strongest—and why.

• by Jennifer Chu

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Silky seeds

A coating made from silk, bacteria, and nutrients could help crops thrive where nothing grows.

• by David L. Chandler

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She’s not there

Even when people expected Clinton to win, they did not use female pronouns to refer to the next president.

• by Anne Trafton

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Epstein update

Law firm’s report is now public.

• by Angela Chen

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Island life

Geological factors help determine how long islands survive—and how evolution unfolds in places like the Galápagos.

• by Jennifer Chu

Meet the author

How economics can help

In the “dismal science,” MIT’s newest Nobel laureates see tools for coping with changing times.

• by Peter Dizikes

Infinite stories

Truth values

Years ago, I quit my PhD program. That became the subject of a play— and led me to launch a program to support women in STEM.

• by Gioia De Cari, SM ’88

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The Great Big Headache of 1968

When Caltech challenged MIT to a cross-country electric-vehicle race, it turned out to be a classic tale of the tortoise and the hare.

• by Fernanda Ferreira, SM ’20

Alumni connection

Making innovation inclusive

An MIT contest rewards entrepreneurs who are promoting an equitable future of work.

• by Julie Fox

Alumni profile

Richard Dattner ’60

Designing the essential and the unseen

• by Julie Fox

Alumni profile

Nader Fotouhi, PhD ’88

Drug discovery career culminates in quest for new TB treatments

• by Pamela Ferdinand

Alumni profile

Aileen Lee ’92

Helping startups become unicorns and women become VCs

• by Kara Baskin

Alumni profile

Mikala Streeter ’08

School founder puts Atlanta students in charge of their own education

• by Michael Blanding

Alumni profile

Kendra Pierre-Louis, SM ’16

New York Times reporter expands public perception of climate change

• by Julie Fox

Profiles in generosity

Forrest Liau ’06, PhD ’13, and Debbie Liu

Palo Alto, California

• by The Editors

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