Undergraduates George Bian, Juliana Drozd, and Cami Mejia offer a look at what it’s like to live and learn at MIT in 2021. “I love being on campus at MIT,” says Mejia, who “missed it dearly” when access to campus was limited due to Covid-19. 

Helping people understand and track their health, alumnus-founded Fitnescity lets users schedule health tests, work with physicians, and interpret results. “We’re making navigating personal health a lot easier,” says co-founder Laila Zemrani MBA ’13.

Senior Shardul Chiplunkar’s academic focus is on the interface of people and programming. But his varied extracurriculars — from spinning fire to building firewalls — fed a secondary goal, to serve as a translator between the tech world and society.

Kerry Emanuel has found that North Atlantic hurricanes are growing in intensity. The Washington Post writes: “He performed climate modeling to reconstruct a continuous record of hurricane activity over the past 150 years from which to gauge trends.”

Researchers with the MIT-led TESS mission have discovered GJ 367 b, an ultra-short-period planet that whips around its star in just eight hours. The planet is about the size of Mars and half as massive as Earth, making it one of the lightest planets discovered to date.

How can the music industry harness the enormous influence that musicians have on their fans to help promote action on climate change? A recent discussion at MIT explored how the music industry might help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.