Textiles account for 5% of landfill space—and clothing made with polyester can take up to 200 years to decompose. Massachusetts […]
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Not everyone can point to the specific moment that set them on their life’s course. But for me, there’s no […]
The computer first appeared on the Broadway stage in 1955 in a romantic comedy—William Marchant’s The Desk Set. The play […]
KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they […]
As an MIT visiting scholar, rap legend Lupe Fiasco decided to go fishing for ideas on campus. In an approach […]
This past spring, we launched a brand-new manufacturing initiative—building on ideas that are as old as MIT. Since William Barton […]
Clara Brenner, MBA ’12, arrived in Cambridge on the lookout for a business partner. She wanted to start her own […]
When the prison doors first closed behind him more than 50 years ago, Lee Perlman, PhD ’89, felt decidedly unsettled. […]
After decades of working as a biologist at a Southern school with a Division 1 football team, coming to MIT was […]
It all began with a simple origami model. As an undergrad at Harvard, Danna Freedman went to a professor’s office […]