Engineers are constantly searching for materials with desirable properties. Now, with a user-friendly interface, they can quickly design cellular metamaterials — artificial structures composed of units, or cells, that repeat in various patterns.

Engineers have created an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials. Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and tidal power.

A wearable ultrasound scanner, incorporated into a bra, could allow more regular monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer. “With more frequent screening, our goal is to increase the survival rate to up to 98 percent,” says Canan Dagdeviren.

PhD student Lisa Ho ’17 studies the barriers limiting women’s participation in the labor force in India. “I want to be an economist whose work is grounded in challenges that come up in people’s everyday lives — especially women’s and children’s,” she says.

“The four years I spent as an undergrad and two years as a grad … it was just a magical experience that changed my life,” says R. Robert Wickham ’93, SM ’95, the new president of the MIT Alumni Association. “But the most important thing that I got out of my experience was learning how to learn.”

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