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Dennis Whyte, the Hitachi America Professor of Engineeing and Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT is one of seven honorees this year to recieve Alumni Achievement Award given by the University of Saskatchewan (USask). One of the university’s...

In the forward to his memoir in progress, Sidney Yip describes his life, and 50-plus-year career as a professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE), as touched by “luck and contentment.” But while the 86-year-old emeritus professor finally has some time to...

If Changhao Li were to trace the origins of his love of nature, he would point to the time when he was nine, observing the night sky from his childhood home in the small town of Jinan, China. “At that moment I...

“I catch myself startling people in public.” Zoe Fisher’s animated hands carry part of the conversation as she describes how her naturally loud and expressive laughter turned heads in the streets of Yerevan. There during MIT’s Independent Activities period (IAP), she was...

The 48th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, held virtually on February 10 themed ‘Open your mind and heart to truth and love’

Looking back on nearly a half century at MIT, Richard K. Lester, associate provost and Japan Steel Industry Professor, sees a “somewhat eccentric professional trajectory.” But while his path has been irregular, there has been a clearly defined through line, Lester says:...

Spotlight: Associate Professor Areg Danagoulian credits mentorship with helping him establish a path through nuclear physics.

Jack Hare says running a science lab is rather like spelunking. In graduate school for plasma physics, at Imperial College London, he was part of the caving club. Each summer, he’d spend three weeks on an expedition to Slovenia, where they’d camp...

NSE graduate student Abhilash Mathews is testing a simplified turbulence theory’s ability to model complex plasma phenomena using a novel machine-learning technique.