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Gerard Porter, wearing a lab coat and safety glasses, conducts research at a fume hood.

A launching pad towards possibility: SPISE alumni at MIT

Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering is an intensive summer program for high school students offered by the Caribbean Science Foundation.

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Artifacts from a half-century of cancer research

Ten objects on display in the Koch Institute Public Galleries offer uncommon insights into the people and progress of MIT's cancer research community.

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Troy Van Voorhis to step down as department head of chemistry

Professor oversaw department growth, strengthened community, and developed outreach programs.

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Joshua Baraban smiles in an outdoor setting.

Joshua Baraban (PhD ’13) awarded the Israel Chemical Society’s Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist Award

Baraban, an alumnus of Professor Robert W. Field's research group, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

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Zachary Fried smiles in front of a mountain vista.

Zachary Fried wins 2024 Rao Prize

The International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy has named Fried one of three winners of this year's Rao Prize.

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Human breast cancer cells.

Startup gives surgeons a real-time view of breast cancer during surgery

The drug-device combination developed by MIT spinout Lumicell is poised to reduce repeat surgeries and ensure more complete tumor removal.

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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches postdoctoral program to advance AI across disciplines

The new Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will support leading postdocs to bring cutting-edge AI to bear on research in scientific discovery or music.

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Scientists discover molecules that store much of the carbon in space

The discovery of pyrene derivatives in a distant interstellar cloud may help to reveal how our own solar system formed.

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A new framework to efficiently screen drugs

Novel method to scale phenotypic drug screening drastically reduces the number of input samples, costs, and labor required to execute a screen.

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Translating MIT research into real-world results

MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship system helps launch water, food, and ag startups with social and economic benefits.

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A laser beam hits a bundle of spheres. After that, it spits and creates a wave form.

AI model can reveal the structures of crystalline materials

By analyzing X-ray crystallography data, the model could help researchers develop new materials for many applications, including batteries and magnets.

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At left, the makeup of a vaccine particle, which shows a labeled glycan, peptide, and SSRNA. At right, a dendritic cell with the vaccine elicits T cell activation and immune response

A new way to reprogram immune cells and direct them toward anti-tumor immunity

MIT scientists’ discovery yields a potent immune response, could be used to develop a potential tumor vaccine.

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Professor Jeremiah Johnson smiles in a hallway.

Johnson wins 2025 Carl S. Marvel Award for Creative Polymer Chemistry

This award recognizes accomplishments and/or innovation of unusual merit in the field of basic or applied polymer science by younger scientists.

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