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Catching (radio) waves
the technology and they needed the skills we had assembled coming out of MIT,” says Bernd Schoner PhD ... In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency ... MIT’s Auto-ID Center, ThingMagic developed RFID readers for the supply chain that could read many tags, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catching-radio-wavesFarmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half
graduated Ph.D. students—Vishnu Jayaprakash—have launched AgZen, which uses additives developed in the lab ... prizes such as runner-up awards at the MIT $100K and Rice Business Plan competitions. Over-spraying ... Varanasi and Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22, have developed a new technology that could cut ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/farmers-use-60-billion-pesticides-each-year-2-mit-scientists-have-developed-new2022-23 Takeda Fellows: Leveraging AI to positively impact human health
a PhD candidate in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology whose research seeks to ... The MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda ... the next generation of AI and system-level breakthroughs, the MIT-Takeda Program is also creating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2022-23-takeda-fellows-leveraging-ai-positively-impact-human-healthAsegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... that has not been without hurdles, much like Henry’s own path to MIT. In 2020, he was granted a faculty ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunEngineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity
control their appetite, it could be taken before each meal,” says Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20, a former MIT ... levels of ghrelin, a hunger-promoting hormone, go down. While a graduate student at MIT, Srinivasan ... MIT-Obesity-Treatment-01-PRESS_0.gif MIT engineers have now come up with a new way to take advantage of that phenomenon, using an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-might-help-treat-obesityNew technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
Riley Brandt '11, SM '13, PhD '16; former postdoc Vera Steinmann; MIT graduate student ... a more accurate job of predicting their performance, explains Rachel Kurchin, an MIT graduate student and ... MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time-consuming ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cellsBubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs
findings are reported today in the journal Nanoscale, in a paper by recent MIT graduate Jack Lake PhD ’23, ... graduate student Simon Rufer, professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, research scientist Ben ... until this work,” says Varanasi. MIT_Controlling-Bubbles-01-PRESS_0.png “Our work demonstrates that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-findings-could-unlock-better-electrode-and-electrolyzer-designs"Biomedical lab in a box" empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries
graveyards,’” says Nevan Hanumara, SM ‘06, PhD ‘12, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Leroy Sibanda SM’24, a recent graduate with a dual degree in Management and Electrical Engineering and ... a larger impact. Working as a team, and with support from MIT International Science and Technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/biomedical-lab-box-empowers-engineers-low-and-middle-income-countriesNew plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Thursday, February 10, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new ... plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... his team, including Abhinav Rao PhD ’18, Thibaut Divoux, and Crystal Owens SM ’17, have published ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminumSix from MIT awarded 2023 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
MIT graduate students Kat Kajderowicz and Shomik Verma, alumni Desmond Edwards ’22 and Steven ... Truong ’20, and Vaibhav Mohanty, an MD-PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and ... ’22 Desmond Edwards graduated from MIT in 2022 with a double major in biological engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-awarded-2023-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansThe Freedom of Constraint
Herr (SM ’93), head of the Biomechatronics group at MIT Media Lab. The TED Talk he gave earlier this ... with MechE post-doc Jesse Austin-Breneman (PhD ’14), Professor Yang has researched several case studies ... they’re designing for, but that’s not always possible, so another graduate student working with Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/freedom-constraintWiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence
graduate studies at the University of Navarra in San Sebastian led to her working with MIT Professor John ... of Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) and MIT Women in Mathematics, and participates in various panels ... sensing and computation. At MIT, Arbelaiz is an applied math student who is working on the fundamentals of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wiggling-toward-bio-inspired-machine-intelligenceFaculty Opening in Music Technology
and Theater Arts (MTA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA seek ... have expertise applying engineering principles to music research, and who embrace MIT's “mens et ... make discoveries that would not be possible without a deep understanding of both disciplines. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/faculty-positions-mtInventor Creates Hub for Innovation
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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventor-creates-hub-innovationMIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
Afeyan PhD ’87, life member of the MIT Corporation, was named a AAAS Fellow “for outstanding leadership ... PhD in biochemical engineering at MIT in 1987 and was a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of ... additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields. Six current MIT affiliates and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellows-0Measuring Students' Passion
about it,” says Senior Lecturer Dawn Wendell ’04 SM ’06 PhD ’11, who took the course as an undergraduate ... once students graduate and start the next chapter of their lives, it also helps them with their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-students-passionSmart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”
fruition,” says Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering and MIT GEAR Lab ... farmers,” says Susan Amrose, research scientist with the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at MIT ... regions experiencing water shortages or groundwater depletion,” says Carolyn Sheline SM ’19, a PhD student ...
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