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Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again

his home continent after graduation. It was an opportunity to directly impact national policy ... for a particular combination of purposes in his third experience with the MIT International Science ... countries,” he says of Sierra Leone, “and I wanted to be a part of that.” The mission of the MIT ...

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Startup’s tablets deliver cancer drugs more evenly over time

quantities. MIT-Enzian-01-press_1024.jpg Aron Blaesi PhD ’14 holds two gastroretentive fibrous dosage forms, ... Blaesi came to MIT, he knew he wanted his mechanical engineering PhD work to form the basis of a company. ... become too low after the initial burst. Now, the startup Enzian Pharmaceutics, founded by Aron Blaesi PhD ...

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With “MIT Fundamentos Electrónicos,” MechE Grad Student Brings Electronics Workshops to Students in Mexico

Working with MIT’s Global Teaching Labs (GTL), MechE Graduate Student Savannah Gordon SB ’24, ... (IAP) are both prime time for MIT students to engage in learning and research outside of the regular ... pursuits. Savannah Gordon SB ’24, now a graduate student in mechanical engineering, spent IAP 2025 in ...

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Savannah Gordon

Prospective-Grad Prospective-Students Prospective-Undergrad Graduate Undergraduate Current Student MIT Fundamentos ... The summer months and  Independent Activities Period (IAP)  are both prime time for MIT students ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering, spent IAP 2025 in Querétaro, Mexico, hosting an electronics ...

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Evan Brown

undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at MIT. Since graduating, his work as manager of design ... engineering has showed him the true power of MIT’s motto: “mind and hand.” At Milwaukee Tool, Brown now uses ... cemented a love of projects that allowed him to bring his ideas to life. That led him to MIT, where he ...

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Nicholas Mabey

MIT Technology and Policy Program, a degree program that combines graduate-level study in a subject ... graduation, Mabey noticed a trend: there were next to no mechanical engineering jobs in renewable energy. “I ... like mechanical engineering with a thesis focused on technology policy issues. “My time at MIT gave me ...

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Adi Mehrotra

Fueled by curiosity and a love of science, second-year graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is ... a “revamping” of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), a student-led research team that is probing the future of ... magazine, MechE Connects. For more stories, and for past issues, please visit  meche.mit ...

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Three professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows

PhD, also in physics, at Caltech in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He joined the MIT faculty as an ... are without equal in our department.” A recent MIT graduate expressed gratitude for Hughes’s “personal ... Three MIT professors have been selected as 2017 MacVicar Faculty Fellows, awarded for exceptional ...

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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2021

based on research quality and accomplishments, academic reputation, and graduate employment. MIT has ... MIT has been honored with 12 No. 1 subject rankings in the QS World University Rankings for 2021. ... Campus_Aerial Dome MIT1024.jpg Aerial View of the MIT Campus. Photo Credit: Christopher Harting The Institute ...

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The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants

School of Management. Joann joined MIT in the fall of 2018 after completing a PhD and postdoc at Stanford ... Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT. His work is in wireless sensing, where his research group has largely focused on ... opportunity they provide for exploration. J-WAFS catalyzes research across all disciplines and programs at MIT ...

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De Florez Competition Winners Split $20K in Prize Money

DeFlorez-2016_1024.jpg Photo by Tony Pulsone This year’s winners in the category of Graduate Design were: Tyler Wortman, ... category of Graduate Science, Katie Olesnavage won first place for her Development of a Novel Optimization ...

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A low-tech solution for high-impact health care

or technology, a team of MIT undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students from multiple disciplines set ... nature of problem and philosophy. As the outreach chair for the Sidney-Pacific Graduate Housing at MIT ... first-ever hackathon. Photo courtesy of the MIT Innovation Initiative. Most ailments are easily treatable if ...

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Once abroad is not enough

authors in London, or taking summer courses in Scandinavia are just some of the ways that MIT students ... programs are now a growing sector in MIT’s global education offerings. The multi-week courses are attractive to ... students for many reasons: They provide MIT degree credit or transfer credit, are a comfortable entry point ...

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Stephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92

World War II, he joined MIT as a staff member in the Radiation Laboratory in 1942. After earning his PhD ... Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random ... Graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in the early days of ...

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Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

today in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science in a paper by MIT postdoc Sami Khan PhD ’19, who is ... engineering Kripa Varanasi and Yang Shao-Horn, and recent graduate Jonathan Hwang PhD ’19. “Carbon dioxide ... MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of systems that use ...

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Overcoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft

Through dedication and a willingness to face challenges both expected and unforeseen, an MIT team ... 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. But that’s only part of the story. MIT ... efforts were thwarted by Tammany Hall politics and the Panic of 1873. It took the MIT team, dubbed ...

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Infinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition

wins-DOE-CleanTech-UP-MIT-1024.jpg Left to right: Infinite Cooling researchers graduate student Karim Khalil, associate professor of ... Cooling researchers, including MIT Associate Professor Kripa Varanasi and graduate students Maher Damak ... Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ...

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A gold medal in oceanography

approaches to global ocean modeling pioneered by his group at MIT. The Sverdrup Gold Medal recognizes ... ocean’s deep interior. Marshall, in a 1990s collaboration with his graduate students Sonya Legg and Helen ... development of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), which Marshall’s group first used to simulate deep ...

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Training STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential

In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... students across the country. Finding inspiration When Beem came to the Institute in 2008 to pursue her PhD ... , she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ...

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