Wicked Bess’s sweet-and-spicy playbook
Shrub entrepreneur Will Caines likes to combine New England ingredients — berries, maple, pears — with Caribbean-inspired flavors like ginger and chilis: “My flavor profile is a mix of those two worlds.” | Edible Boston | June 2024
Putting Native foods back into Native diets
Mariah Gladstone, founder of Indigikitchen, is helping to revive Native American cuisine and reconnect Indigenous communities with their ancestral culture. | Columbia Magazine | May 2023
Open book: university publisher Amy Brand
Amy Brand oversees the publication of some 350 books and 40 journals each year. In her ideal world, you’d be able to read most of them for free. | Barnard Magazine | February 2023
Given what we know, how do we live now?
The Council on the Uncertain Human Future, a framework for reckoning with the climate crisis, provides a “container for a deep dive into dark waters.” | MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | April 2022
MIT PRIMES = a plus for youth
In 2020, three researchers wrote a paper proving “a Stembridge-type equality for skew dual stable Grothendieck polynomials.” Relatively few people on the planet know what that means — and co-author Jakin Ng admits she wasn’t one of them when she dove into the project. | MIT Spectrum | Spring 2022
The power of the pivot
Student teams took to the stage at MIT delta v’s annual Demo Day to pitch companies that were, in many cases, significantly different from what they’d envisioned at the start of the summer. | MIT Sloan Year in Review | March 2022
Sustainability at the core of the curriculum
More sustainability education? That’s not a tough sell to the MIT campus community — at least not in theory, says Sarah Meyers, education program manager for the Environmental Solutions Initiative. | Slice of MIT | March 2022
Redfin chief economist sees the human side of the housing market
Interviewing individuals affected by the foreclosure crisis about life events, financial literacy, and risk aversion “got me interested in the intersection between behavioral economics and housing,” says Daryl Fairweather. | MIT Alumni News | October 2020
Fifty years of student research stories
Dining with Andy Warhol wasn’t what architecture major Malcolm Best expected when he signed up for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at MIT in 1969… | MIT Alumni News | December 2019
Podcast: Ilene Gordon on being a Fortune 500 CEO
The importance of having a plan B (and C), how doing laundry in London helped her career, and what she wishes more mentees would ask her. | Slice of MIT | August 2019
Why do you ask?
The power of wanting to know — according to an artist, a physicist, a management expert, two engineers, and a philosopher. | MIT Spectrum | Fall 2017