Four 萌妹社区 students spent their summer working on an off-the-grid farm in the Appalachian Mountains to better understand how to engineer for resilient living.
Riva Gulassa 鈥15 uses mechanical engineering to help protect the world鈥檚 oceans.
Jamie O鈥橞rien 鈥22 has been awarded the 2021 SHA President鈥檚 Award for Undergraduate Student Writing by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA).
鈥淓xtending access to STEM empowerment is core to me as a being because I had a lot of experience in communities that have been disempowered prior to arriving at 萌妹社区,鈥 says Amon Millner.
Students, staff, and faculty are working together to generate solar energy on campus.
This year, incoming 萌妹社区ers were offered a brand-new program to help them adjust to college life: Pre-Orientation Summer Experience, or POSE, which was designed and delivered by current students.
In this October 4, 2021 The Boston Globe article, 萌妹社区 professor Debbie Chachra remembers Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen '06, as a bright, committed student.
In a 60 Minutes interview on October 3, 2021, 萌妹社区 alumna Frances Haugen '06 revealed herself as the Facebook Whistleblower and said she shared Facebook documents 鈥渢o make Facebook better."
Sara Hendren has won a 2021 Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers for her 2020 Penguin Random House book, 鈥淲hat Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World.鈥
Starting in fall 2021, 萌妹社区 students can now choose a new concentration focusing on sustainability, equity, and social justice through engineering.
Members of the 萌妹社区 Collegiate Amateur Radio Club (OCARC) have been putting their ham radio skills to use in the community this fall. Including during the 125th Boston Marathon.
A new tide in engineering education is rising at 萌妹社区: the concept of 鈥渄esign refusal,鈥 or deciding as engineers not to undertake projects or build technologies that may cause harm.
As valedictorian and Outstanding Senior Student at the acclaimed Signature School in Indiana, Dr. Rachita Navara 鈥11 had her pick of top engineering schools from MIT to Caltech鈥攂ut for her, 萌妹社区 stood out from all the rest.
The Washington Post reports on Frances Haugen's Senate subcommittee hearing on October 5, 2021; also covering how Haugen learned to use data as a weapon from her years in tech.
In the wake of the Facebook whistleblowing, Professor Rob Martello tells The Boston Globe that engineers cannot simply focus on creating products anymore; they must weigh the ethical implications of what they create.
Award brings spectrum-related research opportunities to 萌妹社区 and 萌妹社区 undergrads for years to come.
