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USA Today

Jan 26, 2026

When will flights return to normal after the winter storm?

Professor Vikrant Vaze comments on the return to normal for flights after the winter storm canceled over 5,000 US flights on Monday. "The network-wide impacts can, in complex ways, affect the itineraries of all different passengers, so just be careful," Vaze said. "It's not simply a matter of whether you are in the heavily affected part of the country or not."

Associated Press

Jan 25, 2026

More than 11,400 flights canceled sunday as massive winter storm sweeps across US

Professor Vikrant Vaze comments on restoring normal flight service after the winter storm. "Because there are so many different airlines involved, I think it's going to come down heavily to the individual airline's network structure, the extent of hit that each of them has had, and just the intrinsic capacity of the airlines to handle these massive disruptions," Vaze said.

Live Science

Jan 18, 2026

Could There Ever Be a Worldwide Internet Outage?

Professor George Cybenko is quoted in an article about the possibility of a worldwide internet outage. "It is possible but would require significant resources and/or huge coincidences, which makes it a highly unlikely, but possible, event," Cybenko said.

Yahoo Tech

Jan 13, 2026

Eric Fossum earns the prestigious Draper Prize for pioneering the CMOS image sensor

Professor Eric Fossum, director of the PhD Innovation Program, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering, one of the most prestigious honors for engineering achievement. "Eric Fossum is a pioneering semiconductor device physicist and engineer whose invention of the CMOS active pixel image sensor, or 'camera on a chip,' has transformed imaging across everyday life, industry, and scientific discovery," the NAE said in announcing the prize.

The Guardian

Jan 07, 2026

We study glaciers. 'Artificial glaciers' and other tech may halt their total collapse

Professor Colin Meyer co-authors an opinion piece about technology advancements that can help stop total collapse of the world's glaciers. "Technologies we can bring to bear include satellite-based radar, solar-powered drones, robot submarines, lab-based 'artificial glaciers,' and advanced computing technologies, including artificial intelligence," he writes.

The African Exponent

Jan 06, 2026

How Sim Shagaya Built Konga Into One of Africa's Leading E‑Commerce Platforms

Simdul Shagaya Th'99, who earned his master of engineering management from Thayer, is featured in a storya bout how he launched his company Konga to be one of Africa's leading e‑commerce platforms.

New Hampshire Public Radio

Dec 26, 2025

New Research From Dartmouth Shows How Underwater 'Storms' May Shape Glacier Melt

Professor Yoshihiro Nakayama is quoted about his research into storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves that are causing glaciers to melt. "In oceanography, we normally look at time scales like months or years, because these processes are not super fast," Nakayama said. "But when we look into these processes over a few days, we realize that there are some processes that pick up the melt."

MIT Sloan Management Review

Dec 18, 2025

AI Coding Tools: The Productivity Trap Most Companies Miss

Professor Geoffrey Parker, faculty director of the Irving Institute for Energy and Society, talks about the effects of using generative AI in coding, particularly the creation of complex code that can have more bugs and be more difficult to fix. "The danger is you sort of push the accelerator and then you're getting a lot of things done and then all of a sudden the complexity starts to go up. And then things start to entangle and you get a lot of spaghetti, and then you bog down," Parker said.