A new model from the Sports Lab predicts how shoe properties will affect a runner’s performance. “Way down the road, we imagine that if you send us a video of yourself running, we could 3D print the shoe that’s right for you. That would be the moonshot,” Sarah Fay says.

Kristen Palmer ’23, former captain of the women’s fencing team, was recently named one of nine finalists for the NCAA Woman of the Year award. Palmer recalls how being a student-athlete set her on a path to taking on various leadership opportunities.

Sharing the life-changing power of math, José Esparza Lozano ’19 is spending a year in Rwanda to help build out the country’s math olympiad team, with the aim of using math as a tool for development.

The brain’s sensitivity to rewarding experiences — which is tied to motivation and attention — can be shaped by socioeconomic conditions, a new study shows. “Your brain accommodates the environment in which you live,” John Gabrieli says.

Chemists have developed a battery cathode based on organic materials, which could cut the EV industry’s reliance on scarce metals with high financial, environmental, and social costs. “I think this material could have a big impact,” says Mircea Dincă.

Baran Mensah, a senior in MechE, is drawn to robotics — especially the animal-inspired kind — because it involves many engineering disciplines as well as biology. “I often find that the more subject areas a project intersects with, the more exciting it is,” he says.