Cramer, focused on the inequities in healthcare and other technologies, has worked on everything from portable radiography tools to seismology research. The past school year, with its primarily online learning format and pandemic-fueled lack of in-person experiences, has been a challenge for students everywhere, including those graduating from the Harvard-MIT…

Katherine Redfield Chan and Constance Wu shared artistic pursuits, including writing and illustrating a children’s book about Covid, on the way to earning their HST MD degrees. When the world, including all academic activities, moved primarily online at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, many graduate students worried about keeping…

Fifteen new professors, including a new IMES faculty member, join the MIT community. The School of Engineering is welcoming 15 new faculty members to its departments, institutes, labs, and centers. With research and teaching activities ranging from the development of robotics and AI technologies to the modeling and optimization of renewable…

Collin Stultz, professor of biomedical engineering in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department, and a core faculty member for the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), has been named to the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program. Stultz, a practicing cardiologist at the Massachusetts General…

Jeff Behrens’s research shows that it can be an uphill battle for life science startups to raise adequate capital The Covid-19 pandemic has vaulted life sciences and biotech companies into the spotlight, highlighting the importance of funding vital research in order to develop new vaccines, medical treatments and therapies. With…