Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With her colleagues at MIT, Hammond engineered a nanoparticle one-hundredth the size of a human hair that can treat the most aggressive, drug-resistant cancers. Learn more about this molecular s...

Despite recent progress, women and people of other marginalized identities remain underrepresented in STEM fields, both in numbers and in visibility. Role models matter, as both MIT Chemical Engineering Department Head Paula Hammond and former U.S. CTO and Shift7 CEO Megan Smith would tell you. Achieving equal and just representation of people o...