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Spring 2021

Climate Landscape

MIT’s engineers take on a defining challenge

Janelle Knox-Hayes. Photo: Sarah Bastille

Spring 2021

The Human Scale of Climate Change

Janelle Knox-Hayes explores link between values, sustainable practices

Researchers are using the lab-friendly grass Brachypodium—a good analog for classic cereal grains—to understand how intermittent drought affects plants at a molecular level. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Spring 2021

Fortifying Crops for Climate Change

J-WAFS project aims to help food grains weather drought

Winter 2017

Neri Oxman’s Krebs Cycle of Creativity

Elizabeth Pedlow ’20. Photo: Sarah Bastille

Spring 2021

The Power to Connect

New fellowship helps MechE grad student advance robotics

Mallory Ringham visited this Red Sea coral reef to study calcium carbonate precipitation, a process that may play a role in carbon cycling. Photo: Mallory Ringham

Spring 2021

Deep Diving into Seawater

Mallory Ringham uses optical sensor to assess oceans’ chemical changes

Assoc. Prof. Drazen Prelec, who studies the psychology of money, says credit cards are insidious because they disconnect the pleasure of buying from the pain of paying.
Photo: Ed Quinn

Winter 1999

The Psychology of Spending

Prof. Drazen Prelec, who studies the psychology of money, says credit cards are insidious because they disconnect the pleasure of buying from the pain of paying.