Students and faculty from MIT and NUM on their first meeting with GerHub, a mission-driven organization that seeks to find innovative and creative solutions to the most pressing issues in the ger areas of Mongolia. ...
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Powering the future in Mongolia

Through coursework, intercollegiate collaboration, and a site visit, MIT students fuse engineering and anthropology to propose innovative energy solutions.
Cem Tasan, MIT’s newly tenured Thomas B. King Associate Professor of Metallurgy, has learned to lean in to the unexpected in research and in life. Photo: Adam Glanzman
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Embracing life’s surprises

Unexpected experimental results often give Associate Professor Cem Tasan new insights into how metals break and deform — and how to design damage-resistant alloys.
As the Earth’s climate changes, larger and longer-burning wildfires are sending smoke farther from their source, often to places that are unaccustomed to the exposure. Image: iStock
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Q&A: Are far-reaching fires the new normal?

As Canada’s wildfires continue to be felt downwind, MIT experts weigh in on what to expect in the coming months, with wildfire season underway.