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Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads

two types of lung tumors. Graduate student Alex Miller and Bashar Hamza PhD ’20, a Koch Institute ... can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... techniques.” MIT-circulate-tumor-02-press.jpg A schematic of the blood exchange technique used to calculate the ...

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A Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?

physics professor (and MIT alumnus) Peter Bermel PhD ’07. Light recycling The key is to create a two-stage ... country has banned or is phasing out the inefficient technology. Now, researchers at MIT and Purdue ... Nanotechnology by three MIT professors — Marin Soljačić, professor of physics; John Joannopoulos, the Francis ...

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David Bierman

Prospective-Undergrad Graduate Undergraduate Alumni Co-Founder of Antora Energy SM ’14, PhD ’17 gray ... Bierman SM ’14, PhD ’17, is addressing the intermittent nature of wind and solar with a low-cost, highly ... thermophotovoltaics since his time at MIT, and Antora’s ties to MIT are especially strong because its progress is the ...

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Can an LED-Filled “Robot Garden” Make Coding More Accessible?

lights and more than 100 origami robots that can crawl, swim, and blossom like flowers. A team from MIT ... Among the other researchers on the new project were PhD candidate Joseph DelPreto, postdocs Ankur Mehta ... and Shuhei Miyashita, and members of MIT Professor Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetics Robotics Lab, including ...

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Deploying non-contact vitals sensing kiosks across campus

11, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Graduate ... When MIT announced plans to welcome back some undergraduates, ramp-up research operations, and ... so in a way that minimized the risk of an outbreak on campus. In typical MIT fashion, several teams ...

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Five from MIT named 2023 Quad Fellows

the intersection of power generation, sustainability, and energy access. Since graduating from MIT in ... MEng ’ 19 (United States) William Rodriguez Jimenez graduated from MIT in June 2018 with a BS in ... (Japan) Hailing from Japan, Yotaro Sueoka graduated from MIT in May 2020 with double majors in biological ...

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Charlene Xia ’17, SM ’20

Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... master’s degree in media arts and science from the MIT Media Lab and had just submitted applications to ... get a PhD to work on a project that protects our planet, or I’m going to start a restaurant,” recalls ...

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Department News

Needham, Mass. He was 92 years old. After earning his PhD in mathematics from MIT in 1946, Crandall ... courses, pursuing UROP research, or performing graduate activities that overlap MIT Lincoln Laboratory, ... Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random vibrations and ...

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Morris Chang

long-term ascendancy in semiconductor manufacturing, while speaking to a large campus audience in an MIT ... lower production costs. MIT alumnus Morris Chang, founder and former longtime head of TSMC, the Taiwan ... Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, spoke at MIT about the semiconductor industry, as part of the ...

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Julia Sokol

consulting firm. Wanting a stronger technical foundation, she applied to MIT for graduate school. During her ... for the environment, but also for global food supply. Julia Sokol, a PhD student in mechanical ... who works on a drip irrigation project at MIT’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab. “That’s ...

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Bill Fienup

and books where he kept encountering the seemingly all-powerful name MIT.  “That really started my ... journey of ‘Well, how do I become a part of this?’” he says.  His determination to reach MIT inspired his ... for the local economy." As a graduate student, Fienup got the chance to co-create toys for Hasbro ...

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Sterling Anderson

Growing up in California, Sterling Anderson SM ’09, PhD ’13, loved all technology, especially ... networks—and giving people their time back.”  Anderson credits MIT, where he focused on robotics while studying ... technical foundation and the freedom to rethink how people and machines work together.  “MIT is where ...

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Letting robots manipulate cables

tasks in the auto industry. Yu She wrote the paper alongside MIT PhD students Shaoxiong Wang, Siyuan ... Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT CSAIL can handle cables with ... a group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) pursued ...

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Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso

medical degrees from the University of Cambridge, his PhD from John’s Hopkins University, and clinical ... engineering at MIT, he serves as a physician at BWH. In July, you published findings on a reusable face mask ... MGH, and MIT, and Adam Wentworth of BWH and MIT, who have been leading these studies, was could we ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis

engineering. After completing my PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, I had a post-doc appointment at NYU’s ... engineering and principal investigator at MIT’s Stochastic Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics (SAND) lab is ... Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I then came back to MIT as a faculty member with the idea of ...

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Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows

from the program, the graduate students, who are in their final year of a master’s or PhD program, will ... 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows are: Yasmeen AlFaraj Yasmeen AlFaraj is a PhD candidate in ... computer science, both from MIT. Vineet Jagadeesan Nair Vineet Jagadeesan Nair is a PhD candidate in ...

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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

associate director for Fab.nano Jorg Scholvin ’00, MNG ’01, PhD ’06 in the session on MIT.nano’s ecosystem. ... technology giants such as Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94, for whom Building 12, the home of MIT.nano, is named. ... “MIT.nano is essential to making progress in high-priority areas where I believe that MIT has ...

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Surface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize

’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ... MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... and lifetime.” MIT-WaterPrize22-02-press.jpg Michael Gangemi, left, and Yajing Zhao of Mesophase. In ...

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Two MechE Faculty Win Prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards

engineers. On Thursday, United States President Barack Obama named four MIT faculty among 105 recipients of ... Those from MIT who were honored were: Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor in the Department of ... Cognitive Sciences. The following MIT alumni — in addition to Kay Tye '03 — were also recipients: ...

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President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea visits MIT

president for economic affairs; Songyee Yoon PhD ’00, a member of the MIT Corporation and president and ... President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea visited MIT on Friday, participating in a roundtable ... technology-driven innovation clusters.  MIT-South-Korea-04-PRESS-2.jpg The roundtable discussion included President ...

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