STEM + humanities = a framework for understanding the world: Natasha Joglekar ’21 is eager to apply her MIT education, with a major in computer science and biology and a minor in women’s and gender studies, to a career in medical research.

MIT’s Commencement saw the premiere of “Diary Of A Pandemic Year,” composed by Jamshied Sharifi ’83, conducted by Director of Wind Ensembles Frederick Harris Jr., and featuring student poetry compiled and edited by poet and lecturer Erica Funkhouser.

Cement in concrete contributes about 8 percent of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions. A new imaging technique could enable new pathways for reducing concrete’s hefty carbon footprint, as well as for 3-D printing of concrete.

A new drug-formulation method allows more medicine to be loaded into pills, so they can be smaller. “This can greatly improve patient compliance because they just need to take a very small drug and it’s still very effective,” says Liang-Hsun Chen.

MITEI researchers have built a supply chain model to support the hydrogen economy. They suggest that using trucks for both storage and transmission could reduce costs and encourage green hydrogen production from variable renewable energy.

MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced this week. This is the 10th year in a row that the Institute has received this distinction.