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Stress Mechanics for Graduate Students
A highly rigorous investigation into the avoidance of cracking under strain MIT is a crazy place, there’s no doubt about that. But just because you’re in a crazy place doesn’t...
Perfection versus Persistance
How I got into grad school A skinny envelope containing a fat “No”: my first rejection. I’d been confident of my eventual acceptance to Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College, and...
Advising Advice
What should you look for when choosing an advisor? At the end of my second year at MIT, I chose to switch to a different advisor, based on our overlapping...
The Craziest Thing I've Done during Grad School
My whole lab agreed to run… across New Hampshire Last year, I started to get really into running, in part due to the fact that it’s a great way of...
Faculty Profile: Kerri Cahoy
Associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics Kerri Cahoy develops technology for satellites on the nanosatellite scale for swarms of satellites with the ability to work together. Kerri Cahoy develops technology...
US Air Force pilots get an artificial intelligence assist with scheduling aircrews
Take it from U.S. Air Force Captain Kyle McAlpin when he says that scheduling C-17 aircraft crews is a headache. An artificial intelligence research flight commander for the Department of...
MIT engineers develop “blackest black” material to date
Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials. With apologies to “Spinal Tap,” it appears that black can, indeed, get more black....
Reporting tool aims to balance hospitals' Covid-19 load
As cases of Covid-19 continue to climb in parts of the United States, the number of people seeking treatment is threatening to overwhelm many hospitals, forcing some facilities to ration...