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What STEM Requires, Dance Provides

her experiences as an MIT student, Toussaint Beach saw the need to increase the representation of ... these. Dancing was something Toussaint Beach says she did as soon as she could walk, and at MIT, dance ... year, as a host for the MIT Alumni Association’s Student/Alumni Externship Program, she even recruited ...

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Marcos Berríos

applicants. This aims to boost the total number of MIT astronaut alumni to 44, of the 360 NASA selected by ... degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as ... and joining the military. Berríos says that MIT first began preparing him for the rigors of being an ...

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Engineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies

As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... specializing in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at ... home on campus, surrounded by like-minded students. “MIT is a place where the students are nerdy, and ...

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Jordan Malone

a passion for engineering, the young Denton, Texas, native made it a goal to study engineering at MIT. In ... engineer. And if you want to be the best, you’ve got to train with the best,” Malone says. The MIT senior ... to improve the sport in the future. Although Malone set his sights on MIT at an early age, his love ...

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Deploying non-contact vitals sensing kiosks across campus

When MIT announced plans to welcome back some undergraduates, ramp-up research operations, and ... so in a way that minimized the risk of an outbreak on campus. In typical MIT fashion, several teams ... testing trailer outside MIT Medical that could test up to 1,500 people a day. A second trailer was placed ...

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2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles

When Michael Benjamin, principal research scientist in the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, ... arrived at MIT 25 years ago, only professors and postdoctoral students were allowed to touch the ... engineering and the primary lecturer and content creator of 2.S01, and Captain Michael Sacarny from MIT Sea ...

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Bettina Arkhurst

and support one another during difficult times. Bettina Arkhurst, MIT senior and RAK Week founder ... Photo: Maisie O'Brien Coming to MIT, Arkhurst quickly settled in and made friends, but she worried ... and MIT is not a place to go through alone.” During her sophomore year, Arkhurst joined the ...

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Peter Godart

a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... in class 2.013, went back to the East Coast, and enrolled in graduate school. “I came back to MIT and ... age of six, he has played the piano and written music. As an Emerson Fellow at MIT since his freshman ...

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Dexter Ang

click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. The MIT startup Pison Technology, ... change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... MIT through the Advanced Study Program. Ang enrolled in classes at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, ...

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Woodie Flowers, a pioneer of hands-on engineering education

learning the art of mechanical design. When Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73 was an MIT student in ... transitioned from student to teacher at MIT, that inclination guided Flowers to take an innovative approach to ... widely imitated both at MIT and elsewhere. He also collaborated in the creation of a popular and ...

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Delivering life-saving oxygen

a team of researchers at MIT’s Electrochemical Energy Lab (EEL) started to devise a plan to develop an ... team at MIT’s Electrochemical Energy Lab developed a portable oxygen concentrator that uses ... were the impetus for another MIT-led project known as the MIT Emergency Ventilator Team. “This project ...

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Diagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test

says Al-Sulaiman, who recently completed a postdoctoral year through MIT’s Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for ... Saudi Arabian Women. The fellowship program brings Saudi Arabian women scientists to MIT each year to ... collaborate with MIT faculty on research. Dana Al-Sulaiman 1[2].jpg Current widely used techniques for cancer ...

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Asegun Henry wins National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today named Asegun Henry, a professor in MIT’s Department of ... sixth faculty member from MIT to receive this honor in its 47-year history, and is only the second ... Group at MIT, focusing on heat transfer at the atomic level. He also works on developing technologies ...

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Professor Koichi Masubuchi, Leading Expert in Welding Science and Fabrication Technology, Passes Away at 92.

Associate Professor of Naval Architecture at MIT. In 1971, he was promoted to Professor in the Department ... MIT in 2001. Koichi Masubuchi.jpeg Professor Masubuchi was interested in welding from a young age ... and spent most of his career at Batelle and MIT dedicated to progressing the science and engineering ...

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Life as a Teaching Tool

allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Mechanical Engineering Professor Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi finds inspiration while downhill biking ...

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AnnMarie Thomas

MIT education, especially Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers SM ’68, SM ’71, PhD ’73. “Woodie Flowers’ ... ocean engineering (now a part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) while at MIT. “He had an ... 2.007, it was ‘Eureka! I know it can do it.’” This story was originally posted on the Slice of MIT blog. ...

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Retired mechanical engineer puts hundreds of parts to use in kinetic sculptures

first and all subsequent projects were fostered in his time at MIT and at the NIH, he says. “As it turns ... different things at NIH. Also, MIT was darn hard. And by and large, most of these sculptures were darn hard. ... I think the discipline to get things done certainly got enhanced at MIT.” From the Rube Goldberg Exercise ...

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