Jeff Tedmori, MBA ’20, never thought his entrepreneurial journey would take him to the London set of ‘Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars’.
Lo focuses on the “valley of death,” where promising, and potentially transformative, ideas are left to languish due to a lack of capital to sustain their growth and development
Venkat Maroju, SF ’07, believes that the only way to improve one part of an agricultural supply chain is to improve every part.
As a city planning student at MIT, Dasjon Jordan, SM ’19, served on the boards of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning Student Council and the Students of Color Committee. He wanted to complete an Action Learning project before he graduated, but his packed schedule of classes and activities ...
Saudi Arabia has the rare opportunity to leapfrog into the upper echelon of biotech nations. By coupling its manufacturing drive with an innovation ecosystem that nurtures startups, develops IP, and attracts global partners, the Kingdom can achieve both economic diversification and sustainable healt...
Deepak Dugar, SM ’11, MBA ’13, PhD ’13, is leading a transformative effort in material production, by replacing petroleum not just as a fuel but as a material. He’s doing this through combining synthetic biology with chemical catalysis to reinvent the way the world makes things—and reducing gigatons...
For the 23 student-led teams in the MIT delta v 2023 cohort, Demo Day marked the end of their journey through the three-month educational accelerator and their first steps out into the world.
MacroCycle Technologies, a startup co-founded by MIT alumni Stwart Peña Feliz, MBA '23 and Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom turns plastic and polyester waste into virgin-grade PET (a type of plastic) using a process that consumes 80% less energy than traditional methods—providing a pathway where plastics are...
USA Lab students conduct fieldwork to deepen their understanding of America’s economic and social struggles and uncover sustainable solutions that work. Host organizations like the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque see such positive outcomes that they often return to host again.
Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen argue in "Overload" that, in many of today's professional and managerial jobs, "the way we work is not sustainable." The reasons include long hours, multitasking, and pressure to be always available via digital technologies yet also in the office for "face time" during th...
