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As she grew up, Makuku had been struck by the impact of housing disparities in her community. After two post-college years in the Peace Corps, she...
The generational equity frame convinced many people that fairness between generations was a major issue, an idea that persisted over time. For example, even after the...
The lottery created a natural experiment, allowing the researchers to track the educational outcomes of two otherwise similar groups of students when one group attended preschool...
She and her cofounders had conceived the idea for Remix while she was on a Code for America fellowship, a program that pairs promising young tech...
MIT took all five top spots in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for the third year in a row and won the prize for the...
Like most of the projects Mueller chooses to pursue, these bring the things you can do on a computer into the physical realm. But speaking more...
To mimic the heart’s pumping action, the team fabricated sleeves similar to blood pressure cuffs that wrap around a printed heart. The underside of each sleeve...
For years, the Indonesian government sent 10-kilo bags of rice to villages, where local leaders were supposed to distribute them to poor residents every month. But...
About 35 million Americans suffer from digestive issues such as constipation, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastroparesis (partial stomach paralysis). These so-called motility disorders, in which food...
Priscilla King Gray, the wife of former MIT president Paul Gray ’54, SM ’55, ScD ’60, and cofounder of the MIT Public Service Center (since renamed...