Basic Research – MIT Spectrum

Spring 2023

The Spin Doctor: Danna Freedman Designs Novel Molecules for Possible Quantum Applications

Chemistry professor and 2022 MacArthur Fellow opens a door “into a real field that has real potential”

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

Jeremiah Johnson is the Firmenich Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Chemistry. Image: Justin Knight

Research to Watch: Boston Globe Singles Out MIT Chemist’s Nanoscale Discoveries

Spectrum’s Most-Read of 2015

Vannevar Bush PhD '16 served as America's first presidential science advisor. Image: MIT Museum

Basic Research: Knowledge is Power

Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT

MIT Researchers: Lack of Science Funding Threatens the Nation’s Future

Todd Zion PhD '04 Image: MIT News/Rob Matheson

From Lab to Market: The Path of a New Diabetes Treatment

Bill Bonvillian talks with a group of MIT students. Photo: MIT Washington Office.

Where the Charles Meets the Potomac: Inside MIT’s Washington Office

MIT graduate students participating in Congressional Visits Day (left to right): Addison Stark, Geoffrey Supran, Daniel Rothenberg, Dillon Gardner, Andrew Warren, Patrick Brown, Katie Pitz, Michelle Hindman, Michael Wells, Lina Zhu, Jessica Friscia, Jacob Colbert, Wen Jie Ong, Paul Bisso, Alec Bogdanoff, Jerry Wang. Not pictured: John Casey Photo: John Casey

Time for Scientists to Embrace the Word “Investment”

Image via the researcher's website

The Historian’s Lab