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From “cheetah-noids” to humanoids

at MIT, Katz studied mechanical engineering, opting for the flexible Course 2A degree program with ... Kim’s lab as part of the MIT UROP – or Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. For his UROP ... engineering at MIT, Katz continued working in Kim’s lab and developed solutions for actuators in robotics. ...

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Inspired to Heal the Human Heart

Lab DESIGN INSPIRATION OFTEN STRIKES ELLEN ROCHE IN HER MIT LAB. But it can also emerge while she’s ... Development Professor and an associate professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and in ... Therapeutic and Technology Design and Development research group and recipient of the 2022 MIT Future Founders ...

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Hot flash relief during menopause

women asleep through the night,” Cavill adds. As a student at MIT, Cavill was drawn to the flexibility ... presented their product, “Uplift,” in front of a sold-out crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. Uplift was ... for MIT Entrepreneurship. The team had meetings with major airlines like United and Alaskan Airlines. ...

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Historic Inspirations

MIT, having participated in high school FIRST Robotics competitions, a program co-founded by Flowers. ... “2.007 was one of my favorite classes I took at MIT. I loved the hands-on learning I got designing my own ... I saw this project as a natural merging of my interest in photography and my love for MechE and MIT ...

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Sarah Tress

When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the ... working to reduce poverty, one person at a time. Image: Melanie Gonick Tress began her studies at MIT on ... just outside the hospital’s gated entrance, and recognizing her privilege as an MIT student and a U.S. ...

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Cookstoves and Connections in the Himalaya

MIT D-Lab "In this time of isolation, this trip was a precious chance to connect with the ... universities."   The project and the team In January 2022, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period, a team ... from  MIT D-Lab  visited North India and Nepal to conduct field research regarding firewood cooking and ...

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Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

quickly transferred to cold — or at least cool — storage, much of it can go to waste. Now, MIT Professor ... Engineer Eric Verploegen of  MIT D-Lab  have  released their open-source design  for a forced-air ... A team from MIT D-Lab and Kenyan community partner Solar Freeze celebrate the completion of the first ...

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Design’s new frontier

thesis in 1963, MIT professor Ivan Sutherland developed Sketchpad, a game-changing software program that ... MIT’s Ideation Lab. Innovations in 3D printing during the 1980s and 1990s expanded CAD’s capabilities ... with the push of a button, software like that developed by Professor Emeritus David Gossard of MIT ...

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New pill can deliver insulin

2 diabetes An MIT-led research team has developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses of ... says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and a visiting scientist in MIT ...

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Flora Klise

her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... point, Klise had focused on medical devices throughout her undergraduate experience at MIT. Concerned ... individual glasses. Last fall, she worked as a student researcher for MIT Sea Grant, helping develop an ...

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LEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow

Speaking at MIT, the LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen discussed the company’s manufacturing ... stranger to many members of the MIT community. Faculty, staff, and students, alike, have developed a love ... and ingenuity, and it has inspired MIT faculty to bring LEGOs into the classroom, including 2.S00 ...

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Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds

The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific ... Credit: Keith Ellenbogen A new research initiative developing at MIT Sea Grant, called LOBSTgER — short ... artist at MIT Sea Grant Keith Ellenbogen and MIT mechanical engineering PhD student Andreas ...

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Ta Corrales

long housed the MIT Museum. The rooms look more like a handyperson’s workshop than a scientist’s lab. ... Costa Rica when she discovered this eclectic enclave within MIT, where 26 staff members support 15 ... classes that teach MIT students how technological innovation can bring people together. The students, in ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock

mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... land-based mining activities. To get my project started, I received a seed grant from the MIT Environmental ... Solutions Initiative, and I have also received a great deal of support from the MIT International Policy ...

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Crystal Winston

She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which provides ... were at risk of going bad. Engaging others in engineering Since her first year at MIT, Winston has been ... also a member of MIT’s Black Students’ Union and recently served as a social chair for Tau Beta Pi, the ...

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Saving seaweed with machine learning

master’s degree in media arts and science from the MIT Media Lab and had just submitted applications to ... Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ...

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Charlene Xia ’17, SM ’20

master’s degree in media arts and science from the MIT Media Lab and had just submitted applications to ... Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ...

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Crystan McLymore

mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... and she chose to apply to MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), even though she says she ... to apply. Let them tell you no.” In fact, MIT told her yes, and once she was accepted, she contacted ...

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Jim Magarian

becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce Vickmark “I landed in aerospace ... leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program, Magarian has taken a new path ...

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Alumni Profile: Nicholas Mabey SM ‘93

wasn’t being done.” That search led him to the MIT Technology and Policy Program, a degree program that ... policy issues. “My time at MIT gave me the confidence to tackle big difficult problems by using both ... approach I learned at MIT with the political approach I learned working in government,” he explains. In ...

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