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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

Spring 2023

Bionics Researchers Develop Technologies to Ease Pain and Transcend Human Limitations

Professor of media arts and sciences Hugh Herr SM ’93 and graduate student Christopher Shallal are working on next-generation biomimetic limbs

Winter 2017

Neri Oxman’s Krebs Cycle of Creativity

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

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.

Cartoon illustration of a futuristic city. People use various modes of transportation to move around the city while researchers work at giant computers monitoring traffic.

Spring 2023

MIT Mobility Initiative Thinks Forward

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

$Adela (YiYu) Zhang and Jakin Ng pose on MIT's campus.$

Spring 2022

MIT PRIMES = A Plus for Youth

Math program mentoring helps high schoolers advance in research