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Senior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing

has also been involved in the Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program, which helps MIT engineering ... started thinking about college, she began looking abroad for opportunities to study engineering. MIT ... different subjects at the Institute, within engineering and beyond. She particularly appreciates MIT’s HASS ...

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David Larson

bachelor’s degree in 2016, Larson enrolled in MIT’s graduate program for mechanical engineering and ocean ... engineering. The summer between his undergraduate and graduate studies, he went back to his native California ... high school. In his free time, he designs and tinkers with boats and is a member of the MIT Nautical ...

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Charlotte Minsky and Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger named 2020 Gates Cambridge Scholars

University of Utah’s Chemistry Department, she decided to come to MIT to study engineering. Mitchell ... Zollinger will graduate from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and then pursue ... tutor for the Women’s Technology Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, where she worked ...

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Wobbly gel mat trains muscle cells to work together

MIT-Gel-Muscle-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers designed a workout mat for cells that can help scientists zero in, at the ... Development Professor in Engineering Design at MIT. “Mechanical forces play a really important role in our ... in Engineering Design at MIT. On Raman’s left is graduate student Angel Bu, and on right is graduate ...

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MechE student named a Rhodes Scholar

engineering senior Matthew Chun and biology and literature double major Mary Clare Beytagh were selected this ... MIT bring to 51 the total number of MIT winners honored since the scholarship was first awarded to ... Americans in 1904. The MIT students were supported by MIT’s Office of Distinguished Fellowships and the ...

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Erik Ballesteros

is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... engineer who was a former lecturer at MIT. As a practical suggestion, she nudged Ballesteros to consider ... which I hadn’t ever considered,” he says. Full circle In 2021, Ballesteros arrived at MIT to begin ...

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Building bridges to Ukraine through language, art, and community

a strong push to jump-start MISTI 's MIT-Ukraine program. “My biggest inspiration was the Ukrainian ... Ukrainian aid groups and communities, as well as the MIT-Ukraine program. “MIT has already launched several ... In a new course that ran this Independent Activities Period (IAP), MIT students studied Ukrainian ...

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Strong mentorship through great decision-making

Chemical Engineering and the David H. Koch (1962) Professor in Engineering at MIT. The Hammond Research ... illustrated by her ongoing commitment to the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP). By welcoming MSRP interns ... all-consuming task. Starting a family in graduate school may be both the best and the most-daunting decision. In ...

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Flexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant

oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ... MIT-Robo-Plant-01-1024.jpg The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “After you open the engine roof, you have to be flexible enough to make sharp ...

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Michelle Kornberg

working with the MIT Sea Grant College Program as an undergraduate researcher working alongside Thomas ... Tony Pulsone During MIT’s First-Year Pre-Orientation Program, Kornberg got a sense of which major would ... Engineering). Later that year, Kornberg declared 2-OE. “I think ocean engineering as a field is really ...

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Nano flashlight enables new applications of light

scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Singh’s coauthors on the second paper are Agarwal; ... Materials Research Laboratory, the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and MIT.nano. Tuesday, May ... minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip. Their approach to ...

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Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination

MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, ... Naval Research. Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ajhart@mit ... .edu Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor John Hart have designed a food sensor from an array of silk ...

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Using aluminum and water to make clean hydrogen fuel — when and where it’s needed

mechanical engineering at MIT. “Using aluminum as our source, we can ‘store’ hydrogen at a density that’s 10 ... Thomas W. Eagar, a professor of materials engineering and engineering management in the MIT Department of ... the MIT Energy Initiative.  Thursday, August 12, 2021 Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative ...

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Student teams design in the face of danger

L. Chandler | MIT News Office Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Teams of mechanical engineering ... conceived, designed, built, and tested by students in MIT’s iconic product design class known by its course ... number, 2.009. MIT-2.009-Event-1024.jpg At the conclusion of Monday’s final presentations for the ...

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Featured video: Making music with the Chorallaries of MIT

Paquette | 5 min, 26 sec Tuesday, April 24, 2018 MIT News Office Collaboration Culture Horizontal ... a physiological response from the audience? Mechanical engineering senior Isabel "Izzy" Lloyd and fellow ... members of the MIT Chorallaries a capella group figure out this complex transformation every time they get ...

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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

National Science Foundation. Friday, July 4, 2025 Adam Zewe | MIT News red Horizontal Developed to analyze ... developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Robotic probe measures electrical property known as ... model that guides the robot’s decision making. This enables the robot to identify the best places to ...

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Jahnavi Kalpathy

MIT.  “I thought taking a break proved I was a failure,” Jahnavi says. “But it turned out to be the best ... Undergraduate Academic and Advising Programming. Addressing the crowd, Jahnavi shared what she would tell her ... In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ...

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Building and reconnecting MIT in Minecraft

way to stay connected. Many MIT students, like their   beaver mascot, are well-known for engineering ... Despite being far from campus because of the pandemic, some students are engineering a creative ... project to build a 1:1 scale replica of MIT in Minecraft may come as no surprise. “As MIT students ...

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Three MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced three MIT professors among the members of the ... influential inventor, engineer, former professor, and dean of the School of Engineering at MIT, the highly ... that defy conventional boundaries. Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical engineering and the ...

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