Alexis Sablone MArch ’16 spoke with the Washington Post about street skateboarding, competing at this year’s Olympics, and why she is uncomfortable with being defined. “I’m just always like trying to be myself and do things that I love,” she said.

Making it through his Covid-era senior year with curiosity and community, recent mathematics and EECS graduate Miles Johnson ’21 employed a strong dorm network and personal interests including rock climbing and jazz.

The brain’s “memory center” is needed to recognize image sequences, but not single sights. “This offers the opportunity to actually understand, in a very concrete way, how the hippocampus contributes to memory storage in the cortex,” Mark Bear says.

Michael Short’s longtime interest in radiation’s effects on metals has led to new interests in nuclear security and microreactors. “Remarkably, the stuff I started studying in my first year of college is what I do today, though I’ve extended this work in many directions,” he says.

Via @MIT on Twitter: “How Veronica Toro Arana ’16, competing in Tokyo this week, became Puerto Rico’s first female rower to take part in the #Olympics, via @USATODAY.”

Eesha Khare studies the chemical bonds that allow mussels to bind to rocks along turbulent coastlines. Her interests also include science policy, climate advocacy, and entrepreneurship. “I like being outside of my comfort zone,” she says.