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Upcoming Events

Tapia Conference

Tapia Conference

September 10-12, 2025

Location:

Gaylord Texan Resort

Dallas, Texas

The National GEM Consortium

The National GEM Consortium

September 11-13, 2025

Location:

San Diego, CA

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Recent Blog Posts

Observations from the 2024 Geophysical Plasma Expedition

July 2, 2025

We stand spread across a frozen hilltop, gazing North at a pale green band low above the horizon. The landscape around us is blanketed in unbroken snow, appearing almost extraterrestrial in the flat light of the waxing crescent moon. We fidget to stay warm and murmur to one another about the slight undulations of the […]

Ten Stitches Up, Nine Down

June 18, 2025

We all know the trope: pick up a hobby, splurge on supplies, try it once, and never touch it again. I took it a step further—starting a scarf in 2019 and heroically refusing to finish it for years. What began as a quick winter project quietly turned into a long-running companion to my time at […]

Time is ticking for the creative art industry? 

Time is ticking for the creative art industry? 

June 5, 2025

What would you do at 7:30 am on a 30 degree, rainy Saturday morning? If it also happened to be Lunar New Year’s Eve?  While my roommate was still waking up and getting ready to wish his family a happy New Year, I was carrying a box of T-shirts and running to the MIT Innovation […]

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Recent News

A new platform for developing advanced metals at scale

July 3, 2025

Companies building next-generation products and breakthrough technologies are often limited by the physical constraints of traditional materials. In aerospace, defense, energy, and industrial tooling, pushing those constraints introduces possible failure points into the system, but companies don’t have better options, given that producing new materials at scale involves multiyear timelines and huge expenses. Foundation Alloy wants […]

3 Questions: How MIT’s venture studio is partnering with MIT labs to solve “holy grail” problems

July 2, 2025

MIT Proto Ventures is the Institute’s in-house venture studio — a program designed not to support existing startups, but to create entirely new ones from the ground up. Operating at the intersection of breakthrough research and urgent real-world problems, Proto Ventures proactively builds startups that leverage MIT technologies, talent, and ideas to address high-impact industry […]

The high-tech wizardry of integrated photonics

July 2, 2025

Inspired by the “Harry Potter” stories and the Disney Channel show “Wizards of Waverly Place,” 7-year-old Sabrina Corsetti emphatically declared to her parents one afternoon that she was, in fact, a wizard. “My dad turned to me and said that, if I really wanted to be a wizard, then I should become a physicist. Physicists […]

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