New research on a cytokine called IL-17 adds to growing evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness.

A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.

The fellowship honors contributions of immigrants to American society by awarding $90,000 in funding for graduate studies.

Now an assistant professor of chemistry in Hawaii, Kelvin Frazier PhD ’15 is also a sixth-grade math teacher, an AI consultant, and an R&B recording artist, making the Billboard charts twice.

Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.

Connected by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative, Lecturer Mi-Eun Kim and Research Scientist Praneeth Namburi want to develop an understanding of musical expression and skill development.

Associate Professor Skylar Tibbits and the Self-Assembly Lab share their work focused on embedding intelligence into the materials around us, including furniture, clothing, and buildings. Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller and graduate student Sandy Curth are digging into using mud as a construction material by “taking a low-cost material and a really fast manufacturing system to make buildings out of very, very low climate impact materials.”

Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT’s chief innovation and strategy officer and dean of MIT’s School of Engineering, discusses the new MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance.

Classes taught by Professor Erik Demaine — whose work in computational origami has found practical applications in fields such as medicine, architecture, and space exploration — are a “mix of rigorous math and creative collaboration.”

Kodiak Brush ’17 discusses his work tackling football helmet safety. The Apache helmet Brush designed for Light Helmets is the “lightest on the market — and yet it has achieved the highest safety score ever recorded by Virginia Tech’s independent helmet testing lab.”