Researchers have used AI to discover a class of compounds that can kill MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium that causes 10,000 deaths annually in the US. These compounds also show very low toxicity against human cells, making them good drug candidates.

“I have this fascination with complex systems, and reducing that complexity and picking it apart,” senior Gosha Geogdzhayev says. In addition to his work on climate modeling, the physics major is in his fourth year as a blogger for MIT Admissions.

“The Navy has a need for engineering leaders,” US Navy Lieutenant Asia Allison says. “The critical thinking skills that I am developing in GradEL will be very helpful in the workforce as we tackle a myriad of challenges and bring new ideas to the Navy.”

A new computational model can capture the elusive transition states of chemical reactions. Chemists created the model by using generative AI to predict the structures formed when a reaction reaches its point of no return.

Things got “WILD!” in Kresge Auditorium this week: That’s the theme of this year’s 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) senior capstone course. It also describes the energy of the capacity crowd at the course’s annual product prototype launch event.

Via @mitalumni on Instagram: “As part of three Serve & Celebrate events, MIT alumni built picnic tables at an urban farm in Houston, Texas; cleaned up La Jolla Beach in San Diego, California; and prepared school backpacks for low-income kids in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”