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In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way.

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Professor Linda Griffith welcomes women’s health advocate and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi to MIT

Senior and Marshall Scholar Crystal Winston wants to design vehicles that drive, fly — and swim

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Professor Daniel Frey receives JWAFs grant for new crop storage technology

Stamp-sized graphene sheets could be used to make make large-scale membranes

Professor Emeritus T. Francis Ogilvie, former ocean engineering department head, dies at 89

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Formula predicts whether or not a droplet will burst in an electric field

MIT team places first among U.S. universities at 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition

Professor Gareth McKinley has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society

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