MIT News: around campus

Before she even graduates from MIT, senior Tiera Guinn is working for NASA’s Space Launch System, writes Zahara Hill of The Huffington Post. Guinn, who designs and analyzes parts for the rocket that will transport people to Mars, advises young girls with similar aspirations to “look forward to your dream and you can’t let anybody get in the way of it.”

Graviky Labs, co-founded by Media Lab alum Anirudh Sharma, is creating soot traps for exhaust pipes that can capture carbon emissions and turn the pollutants into inks. Known as Kaalink, the product “can collect enough carbon to produce one fluid ounce of ink, enough to fill a pen, in about 45 minutes,” writes Liz Stinson for Wired.  

MIT’s Green Building was lit up with a blue “5” after the Patriot’s fifth Super Bowl win, reports Jaclyn Reiss of The Boston Globe.