With decades of experience working across the laboratory’s R&D areas, Choi brings a focus on collaboration, technical excellence, and unity.

VEIR, founded by alumnus Tim Heidel, has developed technology that can move more power over long distances, with the same footprint as traditional lines.

Using this new approach, researchers could develop drug compounds with unique pharmaceutical properties.

Known for her rigorous approach to science and her influential research, Pardue paved the way for women in science at MIT and beyond.

Wall Street Journal reporter Justin Lahart spotlights the work of Professor David Autor, an economist whose “thinking helped change our understanding of the American labor market.” Harvard Professor Lawrence Katz says Autor has “probably been the most insightful and influential scholar of the labor market” in decades. “To me, the labor market is the central institution of any society,” says Autor. “The fastest way to improve people’s welfare is to improve the labor market.” 

MIT scientists have developed a new model to analyze movements across the Antarctic Ice Sheet, “a critical step in understanding the potential speed and severity of sea level rise.” Assistant Professor Brent Minchew explains: “The flow of glaciers is really the thing that could lead to catastrophic sea level rise scenarios.” The findings take “a really big and important step toward understanding what the future is going to look like.”