With a new year upon us, let us take a moment to appreciate the many accomplishments and happenings across MIT during the past 12 months. Here are the Institute’s top research stories, community stories, and media mentions from 2024.
Top Headlines
MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s first fusion power plant
The company has announced that it will build the first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
Celebrating the opening of the new Graduate Junction residence
MIT grad students and their families joined project and construction staff to mark the collaborative effort to plan and create MIT’s newest graduate residence.
Hate grocery shopping? Robots could soon do it for you // NBC Boston
Professor Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL, discusses her work developing a new AI system aimed at making grocery shopping easier, more personalized, and more efficient.
The world’s largest space telescope just got an unexpected new role: asteroid hunter // National Geographic
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), MIT astronomers spotted “small space rocks — including some just dozens of feet in length, the tiniest ever discovered in our solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.”