Graduate work with an impact — in big cities and on campus

MIT News | Aug. 20, 2025, midnight | Original
PhD student Nick Allen has helped mainstream new tax-reform concepts for policymakers, while working to enhance MIT grad-school life.
Professor John Joannopoulos, photonics pioneer and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies director, dies at 78 New laser “comb” can enable rapid identification of chemicals with extreme precision