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MIT Associate Professor Mathias Kolle is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other optically interesting organisms in search of ways to replicate, and even improve upon, their structural, light-bending effects.

Mai Hassan, associate professor of political science at MIT, studies the bureaucratic state, and seeks to understand the motivations, capacities, and roles of people administering state programs and social functions, including the democratization efforts in Kenya and elsewhere in East Africa, such as her native Sudan.

Anne White, professor and head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, is a leader in plasma physics and has produced path-breaking fusion research. She's passionate about changing the world with nuclear applications.

MIT faculty from the School of Science and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing lead one of the Climate Grand Challenges flagship projects “Bringing Computation to the Climate Crisis.”

The MIT Center for International Studies and Security Studies Program are offering new war gaming resources for modeling human behavior and decision-making in real-world scenarios.

A Littoral Collection Module (LCM) designed to provide solutions both locally and globally skims sargassum seaweed off the surface of the water with nets that can be mounted on any boat and towed out to sea where the carbon in the seaweed can be sequestered.

Last week around 300 RT-PCR tests were conducted out of which 18 members of the faculty, staff and students tested COVID-19 positive.

Caption: Representing the fields of medicine, anthropology, political science, health economics, science writing, and medical humanities, seven MIT researchers articulate opportunities for U.S. health care to become more equitable, effective, coherent, and prepared for the next pandemic. Top row, (l-r): Dwai Banerjee, Andrea Campbell, Jonathan Gruber, Jeffrey Harris. Bottom row (l-r): Erica Caple James, Seth Mnookin, Parag Pathak. Credits: ...

Caption: "There is tremendous and growing interest in environmental questions within economics," says Assistant Professor Clare Balboni. "Economic models and methods can help to enhance our understanding of how to balance the imperative for continued growth in prosperity and well-being — particularly for the world’s poorest — with the need to mitigate and adapt to the environmental externalities that this growth creates." Credits: ...