Raj Tahil ’81 and Mary Jo Wrenn
Raj Tahil credits MIT with sparking his entrepreneurial instincts. “I learned to see problems as…
Improving access to healthy, fast-casual food
Cassandria Campbell, MCP ’11, traces her interest in food to her first summer job working…
Energy from the earth, for the earth
Geothermal power is a promising energy source limited by factors including the need to locate…
Schooling teachers in the realities of urban education
When Jesse Solomon ’91 first started teaching at a middle school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in…
The art of bonsai, according to an engineer
Julian Adams remembers clearly the first time he saw a bonsai. He was wandering a…
Ensuring a bright future for Seattle
In 1982, when Lynn Best ’69 joined the public utility Seattle City Light, her team…
The work of the future
Editor’s Note: In 2020, an MIT Task Force produced a comprehensive report on the Work…
Serving as “a force multiplier for good”
“At MIT, we believe that public service can be—and should be—as intense, meaningful, and intellectually…
Better democracy through technology
When Mike Koval, the police chief of Madison, Wisconsin, abruptly resigned on a Sunday in…
An Uber driver was murdered. His family is pleading for the company’s help.
Ahmad Fawad Yusufi, 31, was sleeping in his car in the parking lot of a…