CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A magnetic pull toward materials Growing up in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with engineer parents who worked in the state's silver mining industry, MIT senior Maria Aguiar developed an early interest in materials. The star garnet, the state's mineral, is still her favorite. It's a sheer coincidence, though, that her undergraduate thesis also focuses on garnets. Her research explores ways  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy Separating crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, and heating oil is an energy-intensive process that accounts for about 6 percent of the world's CO 2 emissions. Most of that energy goes into the heat needed to separate the components by their boiling point. In an advance that could dramatically reduce the more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention Humans naturally learn by making connections between sight and sound. For instance, we can watch someone playing the cello and recognize that the cellist's movements are generating the music we hear. A new approach developed by researchers from MIT and elsewhere improves an AI model's ability to learn in this  more PR

MEADVILLE, Pennsylvania, May 23 -- Allegheny College issued the following news: * * * Allegheny Graduate Credits Student Leadership & Theatre Experience For Successful Surgery Career By Katheryn Frazier Roy Phitayakorn '98 is dedicated to helping patients at Massachusetts General Hospital as a surgeon and educating the next generation of leaders at Harvard Medical School. He reflects that his experience as a student leader for the Association for Asian and Asian American Awareness (A5) was  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 23 -- Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Student Receives 2025 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship MPH student Erin Johnston will visit the UK to report on the efforts of neurodivergent researchers to improve access to timely diagnosis and care. By Megan Jones Erin Johnston, a 2025 Master of Public Health student, has been named a 2025 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow. The Pulitzer fellowship program is part of a long-sta more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Learning how to predict rare kinds of failures On Dec. 21, 2022, just as peak holiday season travel was getting underway, Southwest Airlines went through a cascading series of failures in their scheduling, initially triggered by severe winter weather in the Denver area. But the problems spread through their network, and over the course of the next 10 days the crisis ended up strandin more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that's also a magnet Magnets and superconductors go together like oil and water -- or so scientists have thought. But a new finding by MIT physicists is challenging this century-old assumption. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, the physicists report that they have discovered a "chiral superconductor" -- a material more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * New research, data advance understanding of early planetary formation A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) has gathered the most sensitive and detailed observations of 15 protoplanetary disks to date, giving the astronomy community a new look at the  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Study: Climate change may make it harder to reduce smog in some regions Global warming will likely hinder our future ability to control ground-level ozone, a harmful air pollutant that is a primary component of smog, according to a new MIT study. The results could help scientists and policymakers develop more effective strategies for improving both air quality and human health. Gro more PR

LOWELL, Massachusetts, May 23 -- The University of Massachusetts Lowell campus issued the following news: * * * Rock Star: Geology Alum Helps NASA Spot Trouble from Space William Stefanov '88 Leads Disaster Mapping, Astronaut Training and Remote Sensing From the ISS By Ed Brennen When devastating wildfires swept through Southern California earlier this year, Los Angeles officials needed fast, accurate information: Where were the fires spreading? How severe was the burn damage? And where was more PR

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, May 22 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * VHB Earns National Recognition at Engineering Excellence Awards Gala VHB was recognized on May 20 at the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 2025 Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) Gala in Washington, DC, where two of our transportation infrastructure more PR