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January 2, 2025
Greetings, and happy new year! Starting tomorrow, we will be on an abbreviated winter schedule, publishing Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays through MIT’s Independent Activities Period, which begins Monday.
 
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2024 in Review
With a new year upon us, let us take a moment to appreciate the many accomplishments and happenings across MIT during the past 12 months. Here are the Institute’s top research stories, community stories, and media mentions from 2024. 
   
Top Headlines
MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s first fusion power plant
The company has announced that it will build the first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
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Lara Ozkan named 2025 Marshall Scholar
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the UK at Cambridge University and Imperial College London.
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MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures
With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.
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Celebrating the opening of the new Graduate Junction residence
MIT grad students and their families joined project and construction staff to mark the collaborative effort to plan and create MIT’s newest graduate residence.
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In the Media
Hate grocery shopping? Robots could soon do it for you // NBC Boston 
Professor Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL, discusses her work developing a new AI system aimed at making grocery shopping easier, more personalized, and more efficient. “I think there is an important synergy between what people can do and what machines can do,” says Rus. “You can think of it as machines have speed, but people have wisdom. Machines can lift heavy things, but people can reason about what to do with those heavy things.”  
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