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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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Smart pill can track key biological markers in real-time

Researchers from MIT, Boston University, and elsewhere report a smart pill the size of a blueberry ... Liu of Boston University, Maria Eugenia Inda of MIT, and Miguel Jimenez of MIT pose with prototypes of ... says Timothy Lu, an MIT associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and ...

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CSAIL, MechE marine experts win international self-driving boat competition

researchers from MIT and Olin College as one of 15 teams competing in the Maritime RobotX Challenge, which ... searching underwater for acoustic sources. MIT-Olin outperformed other universities from Australia, Japan, ... previous month, the MIT-Olin team’s boat had capsized on the Charles River, forcing them to completely ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi

Droplets Break a Theoretical Time Barrier on Bouncing   By David Chandler, MIT News Office   Those ... bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that perceived ... journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, along ...

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Retirements

conversion. He was Associate Dean of the MIT School of Engineering between 1975 and 1977, and the Associate ... Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology from 1977 to 1982. Ernie is a member ... 30 of those years, Bora and his wife Liba were housemasters at MIT, serving at Senior House from 1976 ...

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News & Research

Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...

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Solving a Rubik's Cube in record time

better with improved motors and controls.” The pair met through the MIT Electronics Research Society, ... a motor actuating each face of a Rubik’s Cube," explains Katz, who conducts research at MIT ... by: Ben Katz/Jared Di Carlo | 0 min, 33 sec Thursday, March 15, 2018 MIT News Office Culture ...

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The race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships

A graduate of MIT’s naval architecture and marine engineering program, Goddard took the Alpino’s trip to ... Boston as an opportunity to reconnect with the MIT community. He invited faculty members Joe Harbour, ... engineering duty officer for the Navy. It was then he was given the opportunity to enroll in MIT’s naval ...

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Bridge to the future of engineering

School of Engineering faculty are embracing the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing ... fundamentally transforming their disciplines. Inspired by student interest in computing, MIT President L. Rafael ... stakeholders across the MIT community. Discussions were led by President Reif, Provost Martin A. Schmidt, and ...

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Researchers hope to make needle pricks for diabetics a thing of the past

such as skin, by shining near-infrared light on it. MIT scientists have now taken an important step ... biological and mechanical engineering at MIT. “Today, diabetes is a global epidemic,” says So, who is one of ... the senior authors of the study and the director of MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center. “If there ...

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IdeaStream 2020 goes virtual

MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation hosted IdeaStream, an annual showcase of ... technologies being developed across MIT, online for the first time in the event’s 18-year history. Last month, ... researchers. Speakers from 19 MIT teams that received Deshpande grants presented their work, from learned ...

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Tackling social issues through engineering and theater

1024-Susan-Su-01-press_0.jpg Susan Su is an MIT senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in ... engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been exposed to ... were.” Su returned to MIT with a new appreciation for theater, not only as an art form but as a medium ...

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The tenured engineers of 2023

In 2023, MIT granted tenure to nine faculty members across the School of Engineering. This year’s ... and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing), Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical ... a tremendous impact at MIT and in the wider world. Their important research has applications in a diverse range ...

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Faculty highlight: A. John Hart

microscope. Hart, who received his PhD at MIT in 2006, returned to MIT from the University of Michigan last ... July to join the MIT faculty. His Mechanosynthesis Group, which has straddled the two campuses during ... an 18-month transition, has already grown to 17 members at MIT. Recent projects, undertaken at both ...

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New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester

A new group of MIT faculty, staff, and their families will live with, work with, and support ... undergraduate and graduate residential communities as part of MIT’s longstanding head-of-house tradition. And ... their areas of expertise encompass a wide range of matters important to MIT students, from condensed ...

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Three professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows

Three MIT professors have been selected as 2017 MacVicar Faculty Fellows, awarded for exceptional ... honor the new MacVicar Fellows. The program and reception are open to the entire MIT community. Caspar ... from Stanford University in 1998. He began teaching at MIT in 2003 as a philosophy instructor and ...

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Mens et Manus Across the Universe

MechE Faculty guide cross-cultural interest in replicating MIT teaching and research. MechE ... two-year master’s degrees for which students spend one year at MIT and one year in Singapore: civil and ... environmental engineering, manufacturing, system design and management, and supply chain management. MIT ...

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A community approach to improving the health of the planet

Earlier this month, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) hosted a Health of the ... the mechanical engineering community at MIT can do to solve some of the biggest challenges the planet ... research. Untitled design (77).png Left photo: Hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ...

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The best semiconductor of them all?

computers. Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions has carried ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ... a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ...

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Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time

alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... ZhiYi Liang, PhD student on the renewable hydrogen team at the  MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and ... GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ...

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