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The Department of Chemistry’s Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory has been awarded the 2020 SafetyStratus College and University Health and Safety Award by the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS gives this award in recognition of the most comprehensive chemical safety programs in higher undergraduate education.

A weeklong integrated photonics bootcamp, offered at MIT as part of its work with the manufacturing institute AIM Photonics, provided students with the opportunity to solve problems using lab equipment to test passive photonic chips, preparing them for challenges they could face on the job.

Method with polarized light can create and measure nonsymmetrical states in a layered material.

Angela Belcher found a way to turn nature's zombies into a tiny assembly line. But creating a new power cell might be just the beginning.

Aerogels for solar devices and windows are more transparent than glass.

Most materials have a fixed ability to conduct heat, but applying voltage to this thin film changes its thermal properties drastically.

Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.

Matt Shoulders hopes to shed light on diseases linked to flawed protein folding.

Investments in energy efficiency projects, sustainable design elements essential as campus transforms.