“Everything is a learning experience. I’m just going to go for it,” Kelvin Frazier PhD ’15 says. Now an assistant professor of chemistry in Hawaii, he’s also a sixth-grade math teacher, an AI consultant, and an R&B recording artist, making the Billboard charts twice.

A surprise discovery could lead to better catalysts for industrial reactions: Upending a long-held belief, chemists have found that a common catalyst works by cycling between two forms, engaging in what Yogesh Surendranath calls “a cyclic dance.”

WCVB’s “Chronicle” visited MIT to learn more about how it “nurtures groundbreaking efforts, reminding us that creativity and science thrive together, inspiring future advancements in engineering, medicine, and beyond.”

Vana is a decentralized platform that lets users own and control their data that are “needed to create better AI systems,” co-founder Anna Kazlauskas ’19 says. Users can contribute data while retaining ownership of AI models and earning rewards.

In the latest episode of the Curiosity Unbounded podcast, President Sally Kornbluth speaks with Christopher Palmer about his research on household financial decision making around mortgages, car loans, and how best to save for retirement.

Mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ’17, a former MIT linebacker, led the development of a lightweight football helmet that’s been rated the safest ever tested by a leading lab. His approach harkened back to what he learned in 2.009 (Product Engineering Process).