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George Hatsopoulos, senior lecturer emeritus and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, dies at 91
George Nicholas Hatsopoulos, an MIT mechanical engineering senior lecturer emeritus who founded ... ME '54, SCD '56 served as a life member emeritus of the MIT Corporation. In 1996, he ... continue studying at MIT. He received his bachelor’s degree, master of science degree, master of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/george-hatsopoulos-senior-lecturer-emeritus-and-mit-corporation-life-member-emeritus-diesAncient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: ... smelting-courtyard-mit-1024.png MIT students and volunteers take turns working the bellows on a mud-and-straw furnace in the style ... this thousands-year-old process actually is.” Old practice, new hands In class, held in MIT’s foundry, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ancient-african-smelting-technique-sparks-anew-mitAna Pantelic appointed executive director of MIT D-Lab
MIT D-Lab recently welcomed new Executive Director Ana Pantelic to its team. Pantelic has worked ... broaden D-Lab's impact at MIT and in the world,” says D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith. “Her ... Pantelic. “D-Lab is steering brilliant minds — at MIT and around the world — toward the challenges of global ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ana-pantelic-appointed-executive-director-mit-d-labMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants
MIT.nano has announced its second annual seed grants to support hardware and software research ... grants are awarded through the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program, a four-year collaboration between ... MIT.nano and video game development company NCSOFT, a founding member of the MIT.nano Consortium. “We are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-2020-seed-grantsHow MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
In mid-March, in response to the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic, MIT Medical quickly set up testing ... MIT-Medical-Trailer-1024.jpg A team of engineers, architects, medical workers, and facilities experts has built a 60-foot ... trailer that is now operating as the main test site for asymptomatic members of the MIT community who need ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-built-its-own-covid-19-testing-trailerMIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ... greenhouse gas emissions. 1024MIT-solar-fuels-01.jpg: MIT engineers have developed a design for a system that ... low-yield and high-cost. In a big step toward realizing solar-made fuels, the MIT team estimates its new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelInventing future fabrics
graduate who majored in fashion design, and Erika Anderson of Carlsbad, California, a rising MIT senior who ... a recent MIT graduate who double majored in architecture and comparative media studies; and Jesse Doherty, ... are the forward-looking concepts presented by a group of three students from MIT and three students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventing-future-fabricsMIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles
further than the collaboration between MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). ... AFFOA_MIT-FIT_3415 1024.jpg New Balance Knit Innovation Designer Michelle Dunbar (standing at right) addresses ... participants in the Summer 2019 MIT and FIT AFFOA Workshop in Advanced Functional Fabrics. Photo: Garrett Souza ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-and-fashion-institute-technology-join-forces-create-innovative-textilesMicroscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly
Murat Yildirim, an MIT research scientist and one of the authors of the new study. MIT graduate student ... author. Other authors include Josiah Boivin, an MIT postdoc; Yi Xue, a former MIT graduate student; ... requires scanning individual pixels one at a time. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscopy-technique-makes-finer-images-deeper-tissue-more-quicklyFor Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up
practical to use graphene,” says Itai Stein, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship program. Monday, April 11, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ... severely limit graphene’s practical uses. Seeking an alternative, a team from MIT and Harvard University is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stronger-lighter-cheaper-materials-scrollMIT engineers find a way to protect microbes from extreme conditions
storage. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to make microbes hardy enough to withstand these ... MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... MIT-Synthetic-Extremophiles-01-press_0.jpg Last year, several strains of the extremophile microbes survived a trip to the International Space ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-find-way-protect-microbes-extreme-conditionsA more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
disease-ravaged organs. MIT-Active-Learning-01_0.jpg But the human body has about 20,000 genes, and a genetic ... struggle to find the ideal perturbation for their particular application. Researchers from MIT and ... Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a researcher at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-effective-experimental-design-engineering-cell-new-stateFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
are Wu and MIT graduate students Jonathan Miller and Daniel Gomez. Monday, July 17, 2017 David L. ... developing world. Now, a new system developed by researchers at MIT could provide a fast, inexpensive ... MIT-Leak-Detection-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fixSand, Sand Everywhere
Carrington Motley spends a lot of his time at MIT surrounded by sand. “Yeah, sand is everywhere,” he admits ... engineering major, is captain of MIT’s men’s track and field team — and when he isn’t launching himself into ... MIT-Carrington-motley 1024.jpg Photo by: Bryce Vickmark Finding a balance Motley didn’t always know he would end up at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sand-sand-everywhereMIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge
After three years of hard work, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team took first place at the 2021 ... the University of Kentucky, by over 100 miles. mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-asc-champs-00.jpeg The ... MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team poses with Nimbus, their solar car, after winning the 2021 American ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-wins-2021-american-solar-challengeMIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips
functions than today’s electronics. MIT-Direct-Stack-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a method to ... communication between functional semiconducting layers. Now, MIT engineers have found a way around this hurdle, ... engineering at MIT. “This could lead to orders-of-magnitude improvements in computing power for applications ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-grow-%E2%80%9Chigh-rise%E2%80%9D-3d-chipsMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
alternative to batteries — that could provide storage of electrical energy. As an example, the MIT researchers ... travel over that road. MIT-Cement-Supercapacitors-02-press.jpg: Since the new “supercapacitor” concrete ... a paper by MIT professors Franz-Josef Ulm, Admir Masic, and Yang-Shao Horn, and four others at MIT and at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
MIT-Dew-Omniphobicity-1024.jpg This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers. ... with a specially designed shape. Images by Kyle Wilke Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to ... a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesInstrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water
-Dry-Testing-01-1024.jpg MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of ... in the United States,” says device designer Emily Hanhauser, a graduate student in MIT’s Department ... transporting them to distant laboratories for analysis. To simplify the monitoring process, MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/instrument-may-enable-mail-testing-detect-heavy-metals-water