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Spring 2023

MIT Mobility Initiative Thinks Forward

Platform merges public, private, and academic spheres to help shape the future of transportation

Spring 2023

Francesca Riccio-Ackerman Works to Improve Access to Prosthetics

PhD student is designing and building a sustainable care and delivery model in Sierra Leone

Close-up of a black man's hand holding a mobile phone.
Spring 2023

CashEx Startup Helps Immigrants Build Financial Future

Funded by delta v, digital service is designed to help African migrants to the US overcome banking obstacles

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Spring 2023

Two Stories of Philanthropy in the Department of Architecture

Named professorship and significant discretionary funds are “gifts of confidence”

Nidhi Seethapathi writes on a whiteboard as a colleague looks on.
Spring 2023

Modeling the Marvelous Journey from A to B

Assistant Professor Nidhi Seethapathi seeks to understand why we move the way we do

Spring 2023

A Robotic Helping Hand for Aging in Place

Mechanical engineering professor Harry Asada works on tools that may be able to help elderly people retain their independence

Spring 2023

In the MIT.nano Immersion Lab, Capturing the Movements of Dancers Has Wide Applications

Characteristics of motion in dance can illuminate what it means to be efficient or fatigued in other domains

Chloé Gentgen poses outside on MIT's campus with the MIT Chapel and Kresge Auditorium in the background.
Spring 2023

Mission-Driven Space Scholar Chloé Gentgen Sets Her Sights High

AeroAstro PhD student hopes to formulate and eventually lead a robotic mission to the outer solar system

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Spring 2023

Bianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries

Mechanical engineering PhD student looks at geophysical systems of land, air, and water to track ocean acidification

Inside a large warehouse, a man pulls a stack of boxes on a tall industrial hand truck.
Spring 2023

MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers Examines How Workers Can Move on Up

Frontline employees are more likely to see higher wage growth when their positions include a wide variety of tasks

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