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A climate window in the Southern Ocean

account.” Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office ... of Oceanography at MIT. “The Southern Ocean is the window by which the interior of the ocean connects ... a multi-institution team led by MIT’s collaborator, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to measure how waters ...

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Blooming ocean fronts

general principle that must hold.” Friday, November 4, 2011 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office orange ... in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “It’s like going into a desert. And ... as to what triggers the bloom onset.” Ferrari and John Taylor, a former postdoc at MIT and now ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Roger Kamm

and Mechanical Engineering, and his doctoral student Ioannis Zervantonakis are two of the few who ... models only, Condeelis contacted Kamm after hearing news of his 3D in vitro microfluidic assay, which ... physical contact with the tumor cells but simply close enough to communicate with them. “This is good news ...

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Talking Shop with Associate Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio

discover ways in which you can reduce complexity.” Monday, December 5, 2011 sadlers red ddv@MIT.EDU ...

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Study shows forward osmosis desalination not energy efficient

Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ... In a recent study published in the Journal of Membrane Science, MIT professor John Lienhard and ... postdoc Ronan McGovern, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, reported that, contrary to ...

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Ice Bucket Challenge: The MechE Way

Home Undergraduate Prospective Undergrad Home http://youtu.be/J-d-kSOahiI Department Head Gang Chen ...

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Faculty Research: Printing in Reverse

Professor Nick Fang Explores Etching at the Nanoscale     Using electrochemical and optical processes, programmable metamaterials, composed of functional micro- and nanostructures, are prototyped at Fang’s lab for applications such as reducing thermal exp ...

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Inside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor

Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, says one of the major ... place.   Exerpted from a story by Jennifer Chu. To read the whole story, visit MIT’s New Office: ...

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Buie, Kim receive DARPA Young Faculty Award

autonomous control algorithms. Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Mechanical engineering green Culture crb@mit.edu ... Assistant Professors Cullen Buie and Sangbae Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering both ...

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The Wonders of Thin Structures

frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and ... Civil & Environmental Engineering, describes the research activity in his Elasticity, Geometry, ... & Statistics Laboratory at MIT. Reis' work focuses on the mechanics of large deformations of ...

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Microfluidics and nanofluidics research address global challenges

Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, addresses real-world ... July 22, 2014 John Freidah | Mechanical engineering green International karnik@mit.edu ...

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Bringing life to computer models of marine microbes

The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...

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Hear from our Students

Burn Yo-Yo Champion Hacking for Lilly The Magic of Making Water is Life We Are MechE at MIT Designing ... Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing MIT Hyperloop A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students How to Succeed at MIT Living ...

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Harvesting Fresh Water from Fog

src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h8vlzZ25vtg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT's School of ... Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable ...

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Building a better indoor herb garden

Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at  the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...

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Designing the Next-Generation Prosthesis

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  Designing the Next-Generation Prosthesis Teaser Text:  MIT ... src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vqrGhMQ2Mco" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT graduate student Katy Olesnavage ... MIT graduate student Katy Olesnavage redesigns the Jaipur Foot to create a high-value prosthesis at ...

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Alumni Spotlight: LiquiGlide

combinations. Much of the success depends on finding the best combinations of liquids and solids. What makes it ...

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