| Cancer Therapy | | | | | | MIT biologists have discovered a set of peptides found only in pancreatic tumors. “Pancreas cancer is one of the most challenging cancers to treat. This study identifies an unexpected vulnerability in pancreas cancer cells that we may be able to exploit therapeutically,” Professor Tyler Jacks says. |
| Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall The new design could assist the elderly as they age in place at home. |  |
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| Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition CoFlo Medical’s low-cost device could administer advanced biologic treatments more quickly to people with cancers, autoimmune diseases, and more. |  |
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| Unleashing the potential of qubits, one molecule at a time Chemistry professor Danna Freedman crafts “designer molecules” for quantum information science. |  |
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| Deploying a practical solution to space debris Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating. |  |
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| Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision In addition to training future players, the technology could expand the capabilities of other humanoid robots, such as for search and rescue. |  |
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| Class pairs students with military officers to build mission-critical solution MIT course 15.362/6.9160 (Engineering Innovation: Global Security Systems) gives students an inside look at military problems and empowers them to build prototypes. |  |
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| Dimitris Bertsimas receives the 2025-2026 Killian Award The professor of operations research is honored for his intellectual achievements and educational leadership. |  |
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| How to spring clean work “stuff” // Boston Herald MIT Sloan’s Nelson Repenning, a professor of system dynamics, and Don Kieffer, a senior lecturer, discuss how spring-cleaning strategies can be applied to organizing work, from handling emails and meeting requests to tackling new assignments. |
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| Opinion: America’s coming brain drain // Foreign Affairs President Emeritus L. Rafael Reif makes the case that “on the battlefield of technology, Americans must both continue to do what they do best and find new ways to improve competitiveness.” Reif explores the United States’ rich history of creating foundational technologies, innovation that frequently stems from research universities. |
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| MIT’s new circuit achieves record quantum coupling, could 10x processing speed // Interesting Engineering MIT researchers developed a superconducting circuit that can increase the speed of quantum processing. “This breakthrough could make operations up to 10 times faster, bringing fault-tolerant, real-world quantum computing a major step closer.” |
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| How tricycle ambulances are saving lives in rural Ghana // The World Emily Young ’18, co-founder and CEO of MIT D-Lab startup Moving Health, discusses her organization’s commitment to transforming “maternal healthcare in rural Ghana, where access to ambulances is severely limited, by creating an emergency transportation network that uses motorized ambulances.” |
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| | | MIT stands as a driver of innovations that generate jobs and power the U.S. economy. In our labs and classrooms, we’re pioneering breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and quantum computing, discovering new ways to cure and treat diseases, and developing solutions for energy innovation and security. |
| | | “Have you ever stopped to look at a neon sign? I mean really look at one — long enough to notice that it is made of glass tubes intricately hand bent and folded, and filled with a beam of plasma,” Rosie Phillips ’21 asks in an essay about her journey to becoming a neon artist. She is pictured here with Daniel Braunstein SM ’94, PhD ’98, director of the Pappalardo Lab and host of the “Lock the Quill” podcast, with a neon sign she made for the lab. “If I’ve drawn one lesson from my adventures in neon,” Phillips says, “it’s that we should seek opportunities to learn with zero expectations or required outcomes. Whole lifetimes of interest are hiding in the objects and phenomena you walk past every day. Neon, the mentors I was lucky to find, and the students I am fortunate to teach have reminded me that I love learning.” |
| 1,281 | | Number of MIT Distinctive Collections searchable via the MIT ArchivesSpace portal |
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