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Dec 17, 2025

Eric Fossum Named 2026 Recipient of IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

Dartmouth Engineer Professor Eric R. Fossum, whose innovations have transformed the way the world captures digital images, is the 2026 recipient of the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, one of the organization’s highest honors.

environment coastal & offshore

Nov 19, 2025

Undersea Storms Are Melting Antarctic Glaciers from Below

Features research co-authored by Professor Yoshihiro Nakayama, that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves that could cause aggressive melting with major implications for global sea-level rise projections.

The Business of Materials

Nov 17, 2025

High-Entropy Alloys, Additive Manufacturing, and Ice Mechanics

Podcast host Isha Ghiya speaks with Professor lan Baker whose work spans high-entropy alloys, additive manufacturing, and the physics of ice and snow. Baker also shares his motivation for writing materials science books for the general public, including Fifty Materials That Make the World and an upcoming book on how materials shape modern sports.

EdTech

Nov 11, 2025

AI in Computer Science Education: Closing the New Digital Divide in K–12

Professor Rafe Steinhauer is quoted in an article about efforts in K-12 schools to integrate generative AI guidelines and instruction into curricula and policy. "[School] districts are never going to have more power to shape the use of GenAI in their communities than right now, so it's imperative that they act collectively, guided by their core educational values," said Steinhauer.

MIT Sloan School of Management

Nov 03, 2025

AI agents, tech circularity: What’s ahead for platforms in 2026

Professor Geoffrey Parker is one of four experts outlining four emerging trends that show where platforms are heading next. "The code assistance is certainly here," said Parker. "It's valuable, but the tech debt is actually a strategic risk and could be really expensive, especially for incumbent organizations."

Research Quick Takes

Ruixu (Rachel) Huang

Dec 11, 2025

Guide for Generating Spatial Data

PhD student Ruixu (Rachel) Huang is a co-lead author of "Systematic benchmarking of imaging spatial transcriptomics platforms in FFPE tissues" published in Nature Communications. A collaboration between the Goods Lab and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the study is the first to compare commercial platforms for generating spatial data.

A printed solar absorber

Dec 04, 2025

Better Printed Solar Cells

Postdoc Yanan Li, PhD students Julia Huddy and Masha Klymenko, and Professor Will Scheideler coauthored "Spatial-Uniformity–Driven Bayesian Optimization for Rapid Development of Printed Perovskite Solar Cells" published in Small. (This came out of work recently funded by DOE in Scheideler's SENSE Lab.) "Metal halide perovskites are a promising emerging solar technology, but challenges in reliability and large‑area scalability still hinder widescale adoption. This work uses a machine‑learning–driven Bayesian optimization approach to improve the uniformity of printed perovskite films—addressing a key bottleneck for scaling low‑cost, roll‑to‑roll manufacturing and enabling higher‑efficiency, more reliable solar cells," said Scheideler.

The three study coauthors

Nov 20, 2025

Toward Optimal Auctions

PhD student Mai Pham, will present her paper, coauthored with professors Vikrant Vaze and Peter Chin, titled "Advancing Differentiable Mechanism Design: Neural architectures for combinatorial auctions" for a workshop at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Although auctions are considered an effective way of allocating limited resources when demand is high, designing auctions that are simultaneously optimal for the participants, system operator, and greater society is challenging. The paper presents a new approach that leverages modern deep learning architectures and algorithms to meet this challenge.