News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Around a glowing star is a disc of swirling rocks, with perpendicular lines of magnetism.

Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun

August 24, 2026

Categories: Alumni, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

A photo of Sheila Baber in front of cherry blossoms in Washington, DC

Sheila Baber ’21 Combines Love of Farming, Passion for Space

August 20, 2026

Categories: Alumni, Life + Environments, Natural Resources, Profile

A photo of Madonna Yoder in her workshop, alongside some complex origami tessellation pieces.

Infinite folds: Madonna Yoder ’17 is an expert in tessellations

October 24, 2025

Categories: Alumni

Michael McClellan poses in an empty baseball stadium. He is wearing a ballcap and has TB on his sweatshirt. The home plate area can be seen behind him and the stands are behind that. The word RAYS is spelled out behind the seats.

Michael McClellan PhD ’18: Data on the Baseball Diamond

October 2, 2025

Categories: Alumni

A photo of a man in religious attire leaning against a telescope.

Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens: Guy Consolmagno ’74, SM ’75 profiled in the New Yorker

July 28, 2025

Categories: Alumni, In the Media

EAPS Alumna Carolyn Ruppel named deputy director of science and technology of the MIT Energy Initiative

March 12, 2025

Categories: Alumni, Community

Darlene Ketten SM ’79 is making waves in hearing research—from whales to humans

February 28, 2025

Categories: Alumni

A close up shot of an asteroid sample suspended in a drop of water on a microscope slide.

Asteroid sample collected by NASA mission contains building blocks of life

February 24, 2025

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research

EAPS alumnus R. Lawrence Edwards ’76 awarded National Medal of Science for climate insights

January 3, 2025

Categories: Alumni, Awards + Promotions, Community

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, Dara Norman ’88 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.

Lynn Sykes ’59, SM ’60: Plate tectonics pioneer challenging the way Earth works

May 10, 2024

Categories: Alumni

Joe Betts-LaCroix SM ’92 asks: What would you do with 10 extra years?

April 5, 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 + Senior Researchers, 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 + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Alumni say Whiteman Fellowship Gave Them the Freedom to Explore

May 2, 2023

Categories: Alumni