Featured

With Brian Sisk, PhD (PhD ’04) helming battery design, Rivian is taking the electric revolution off-road by Wayne Lewis Illustrated by Marian F. Moratinos When the electric-vehicle company Rivian Automotive first reached out to him in 2019, Brian Sisk, PhD (PhD ’04)...

How Ethan Frey is using cryptocurrency to address climate change by Dan MorrellIllustrated by Valerie ChiangEthan Frey (BS ’99) didn’t find cryptocurrency—it found him. He was at a political conference in Berlin in 2014, and the only guy in the room wearing a suit...

Katie Mack brings galactic ideas down to earth. by Peg MolineKatie Mack (BS ’03), a theoretical astrophysicist at North Carolina State, studies some of the most complex topics in the cosmos—dark matter, galaxy formation, and the origins of the universe. But she is...

As artificial intelligence becomes mainstream, who will guide it? Nigel BuchananArtificial intelligence is a trending topic, but few have the bona fides of Fei-Fei Li (PhD ’05). The former A.I. leader and chief scientist for Google Cloud—where she oversaw research in...