News + Impact - MIT EAPS

A photo of MIT alum Dara Norman wearing a hard had and a yellow reflective vest with her hand leaning on a railing and a blue sky and landscape behind her.

At MIT, She Fell in Love with Stars

June 7, 2024

Categories: Alumni

Sky is no limit for deaf pilot Sheila Xu ’14

May 21, 2024

Categories: Alumni

A black and white photo of Lynn Sykes standing next to an old-fashioned rotating drum seismograph.

Plate tectonics pioneer challenges the way Earth works

May 10, 2024

Categories: Alumni

Roger Summons and Angel Mojarro stand together and smile at the camera.

EAPS Alumnus Angel Mojarro featured in NASA early career scientist spotlight

March 18, 2024

Categories: Alumni, Profile

The tale of a carbon wrangler: Julio Friedmann ’88, SM ’90

October 20, 2023

Categories: Alumni

Alumna Louise Bedsworth ’96: enabling laws to work, and work equitably

October 16, 2023

Categories: Alumni

With Psyche, a journey to an ancient asteroid is set to begin

October 11, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Faculty, Planets, Research

Lindy Elkins-Tanton poses in a red, collared Psyche shirt. A large silver disc on the spacecraft can be seen through the window behind her.

EAPS alumna Lindy Elkins-Tanton, lead of NASA’s Psyche mission, is ready to celebrate

October 10, 2023

Categories: Alumni

The North Sea via satellite. The dark blue water has swirls of teal, and Germany peeks out from the bottom right.

Study: The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change

July 12, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Alumni say Whiteman Fellowship Gave Them the Freedom to Explore

May 2, 2023

Categories: Alumni

A bright bluish light, which is debris, shoots across the black background, with light trailing behind it.

3Q: What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission

March 2, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

What Do Earthquake Forecasting and Cancer Treatment Have in Common?

November 8, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Profile

Using seismology for groundwater management

August 22, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Resources, Research

Space y Chile: communicating planetary science

February 11, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Events + Outreach, Planets

Floating robots capture data from the planet’s warming oceans

August 9, 2021

Categories: Alumni, Health of the Planet, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Where Are They Now?

June 8, 2021

Categories: Alumni

Astronaut Michael Fincke ’89 offers students out-of-this-world advice

May 21, 2021

Categories: Alumni

Linda Elkins-Tanton ’87, SM ’87, PhD ’02 elected to the National Academy of Sciences

April 28, 2021

Categories: Alumni, Awards + Promotions

Protecting the world’s vanishing coral reefs

April 16, 2021

Categories: Alumni, Research

Safe to Swim? Scientist’s Study of River Bacteria Motivated by Environmental Justice

March 22, 2021

Categories: Alumni, Research