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MIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt
MIT is the recipient of a $30 million award from the U.S. Agency for International Development ... (USAID), announced this week at a two-day ceremony in Cairo. The award will support MIT over the next five ... with experts at MIT, to seek innovative solutions to the country’s energy challenges. The Center of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-30-million-help-address-energy-challenges-egyptProfessor Alberto Rodriguez presents work on robotic extrinsic dexterity
Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and incoming graduate student ... robotic hands. Friday, July 11, 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering blue ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-alberto-rodriguez-presents-work-robotic-extrinsic-dexterityCenter to advance predictive simulation research established at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
of strenuous conditions At MIT, a new research effort aims to advance the state-of-the-art in ... predictive simulation as well as shape new interdisciplinary graduate education programs at the intersection ... Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE) within the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing — will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/center-advance-predictive-simulation-research-established-mit-schwarzman-collegeMIT Students Win First Round of SpaceX Hyperloop Contest
Beating out a field of more than 100 other teams from around the world, the group of MIT graduate students ... inspired by Elon Musk and sponsored by SpaceX.. A team from MIT took top honors Saturday at a competition ... next to the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. “MIT has been involved in so many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-win-first-round-spacex-hyperloop-contestMIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection
When the student body was sent home last March in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the MIT ... undergraduate and graduate student members, faced its biggest challenge yet — transitioning nearly 70 in-person ... most MIT clubs and organizations were not in session — on ways to adapt and run all of their customary ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-society-women-engineers%E2%80%99-journey-virtual-connectionFour MIT students named Schwarzman Scholars
Three undergraduate and one graduate student from MIT have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars. ... leadership training at Tsinghua University in Beijing. MIT’s four students, Alix de Monts ’14, Lisa Ho, Anita ... at Tsinghua University. Alix de Monts is currently a master’s student in MIT’s Technology and Policy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-students-named-schwarzman-scholarsWith campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
In 2015, MIT set a goal to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 32 percent ... MIT has reduced campus emissions by 24 percent over the past five years. Cumulative efforts to reduce ... outreach, as well as calling on MIT to use its campus operations and community as a test bed for change. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/campus-test-bed-climate-action-starts-and-continues-mitFirst Annual MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Awards Presented
Lorna Gibson wins for 3.032 Mechanical Behavior of Materials This year marks the launch of the MIT ... Undergraduate Education (DUE) and the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE), the student-nominated ... teaching and learning at MIT. The winners are: Peter Dourmashkin, senior lecturer in the Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-annual-mit-teaching-digital-technology-awards-presentedSTE@M: Sports Technology and Education @ MIT
STE@M: Sports Technology and Education at MIT STE@M students gather around Professors Hosoi and ... Slocum, and Patagonia’s O’Hara, as well as Francisco Goya (holding MIT penant) at Goya Windsurfing. ... winter were photos of MIT students windsurfing on the sunny shores of Maui, you might have your ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stem-sports-technology-and-education-mitGame changer: How Christopher Weaver transformed video games and game studies at MIT
about keeping that engagement and the game play front and center.” Troy Ko, who graduated from the MIT ... his MIT students to do the same. A longtime research scientist and lecturer in MIT’s Comparative Media ... instructor and in helping to create MIT’s game studies curriculum, has rippled through the industry. Started ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/game-changer-how-christopher-weaver-transformed-video-games-and-game-studies-mitMIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga
technology.” The paper’s lead author is MIT graduate student Nima Fazeli. The team also includes Miquel Oller, ... In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently ... a solitary, slow-moving, yet surprisingly agile game of Jenga. The robot, developed by MIT engineers, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-combines-vision-and-touch-learn-game-jengaMIT engineers design flexible “skeletons” for soft, muscle-powered robots
MIT engineers have developed a spring-like device that could be used as a basic skeleton-like module ... compared with other previous device designs. 1024_Muscle-Flex-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed ... Design at MIT. “We are giving roboticists a new set of rules to make powerful and precise muscle-powered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-flexible-%E2%80%9Cskeletons%E2%80%9D-soft-muscle-powered-robotsMIT-Takeda program launches
In February, researchers from MIT and Takeda Pharmaceuticals joined together to celebrate the ... official launch of the MIT-Takeda Program. The MIT-Takeda Program aims to fuel the development and ... together the MIT School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, to combine knowledge and address ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-takeda-program-launches2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards honor MIT educators’ innovation and empathy
This June, 23 faculty and instructors from over a dozen departments, labs, and centers across MIT ... of Open Learning. Established in 2016 and co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the ... use of digital technologies in the context of MIT’s in-person, on-campus classes. But in the last two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2021-teaching-digital-technology-awards-honor-mit-educators%E2%80%99-innovation-and-empathyMIT students hack assistive technology solutions for local clients
a technology that suits those needs," says MIT graduate student Jaya Narain, who co-directed the event ... During the event this spring, MIT students develop technological solutions to problems faced by Greater ... assistance from several mentors: John Vivilecchia, Kurt Krueger, and Richard Landry of MIT Lincoln ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-hack-assistive-technology-solutions-local-clientsMIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing
of a new MIT spinout — Xibus Systems — that is aiming to make a splash in the food industry with ... the technology, based on MIT research, was supported by two commercialization grants through the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testingThree at MIT named 2018 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
MIT President L. Rafael Reif and two engineering faculty members have been named 2018 fellows of ... MIT, where she directs the Center for Gynepathology Research. Her research is in the field of ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-2018-fellows-national-academy-inventorsMIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America
MIT has received a $15 million award from the United States Agency for International Development ... support a collaboration between MIT, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), and the Guatemalan ... researchers at MIT to collaboratively seek innovative solutions to regional development challenges. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-15m-usaid-award-promote-research-and-innovation-universities-latin-americaSix MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2019
Six MIT researchers are among the 86 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the National ... Picard, a professor of media arts and sciences and director of affective computing research in the MIT ... Christine Wang, a senior staff scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, for contributions to epitaxial crystal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-researchers-elected-national-academy-engineering-2019