Lionel Kimerling

Two MIT-led teams received funding from the National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator to investigate quantum topological materials and sustainable microchip production.

The Spark Photonics Foundation, co-founded by MIT alumnus Kevin McComber, incorporates a project-based photonics curriculum into K-12 classrooms to get students interested in STEM fields, especially advanced manufacturing and semiconductors.

Three MIT-led teams have won National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator grants to research sustainable materials. Principal investigators include Anuradha Murthy Agarwal, Mingda Li, and Christine Ortiz.

The Lab for Education and Application Prototypes (LEAP), in MIT.nano, is a research laboratory that also functions as a blended learning classroom for learning how to package electronic and photonic chips.

Humankind needs more and more resources, from computing power to concrete, to meet the growing demands associated with data centers, infrastructure, and other mainstays of society. Advanced materials key to that growth were the focus of an MIT workshop.