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Four from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science
The White House honored four MIT affiliates today with the nation’s highest awards for scientists ... and Innovation along with Eric Swanson SM ’84, a research affiliate at RLE and mentor for the MIT ... Emeritus and former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, was awarded the National Medal of Science. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-national-medals-technology-scienceFour researchers with MIT ties earn Schmidt Science Fellowships
Four researchers with MIT ties — Juncal Arbelaiz, Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Sandya Subramanian, and ... challenges.” The four MIT-affiliated researchers are among 29 Schmidt Science Fellows from around the world who ... schmidt-science-fellows-mit-00.png: Clockwise from top left: Juncal Arbelaiz, and Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Hannah Zlotnick and Sandya ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-mit-ties-earn-schmidt-science-fellowshipsMIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease
A team of MIT researchers will lead a $65.67 million effort, awarded by the U.S. Advanced Research ... at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Our primary focus is on disorders ... applied very broadly.” MIT-Traverso-Giovanni-01-Press_0-1.jpg: A team of MIT researchers will receive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-led-team-receives-funding-pursue-new-treatments-metabolic-diseaseMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants
MIT.nano has announced its second annual seed grants to support hardware and software research ... grants are awarded through the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program, a four-year collaboration between ... MIT.nano and video game development company NCSOFT, a founding member of the MIT.nano Consortium. “We are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-2020-seed-grantsMIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
MIT-Ultrasound-sticker-1024.jpg MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The ... available only in hospitals and doctor’s offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the ... environmental engineering at MIT. “We believe we’ve opened a new era of wearable imaging: With a few patches on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-stickers-can-see-inside-bodyHow MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
In mid-March, in response to the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic, MIT Medical quickly set up testing ... MIT-Medical-Trailer-1024.jpg A team of engineers, architects, medical workers, and facilities experts has built a 60-foot ... trailer that is now operating as the main test site for asymptomatic members of the MIT community who need ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-built-its-own-covid-19-testing-trailerMaking her way through MIT
Lucy Du, a doctoral student in the MIT Media Lab, has a remarkable passion for making. She spends ... projects in the MIT MakerWorkshop or inspiring other students to try their hands at engineering. “The best ... in is like Christmas,” she says. MIT-Lucy-Du-01-press_0.jpg PhD student Lucy Du is a founding member ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-her-way-through-mitMIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ... greenhouse gas emissions. 1024MIT-solar-fuels-01.jpg: MIT engineers have developed a design for a system that ... low-yield and high-cost. In a big step toward realizing solar-made fuels, the MIT team estimates its new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelMIT team races to second in electric car competition
is what the MIT Motorsports team did when they snagged a Second Place Overall Spirit of Excellence ... Nebraska. MIT-Motorsports-team-with-2017-Formula-SAE-Electric-102400_0.jpg The MIT Motorsports team is all ... Electric competition in Lincoln, Nebraska. SMechE senior Will Harvey was the MIT Motorsports team driver. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-second-electric-car-competitionMIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage
units, professor of mechanical engineering Alex Slocum Sr. and other engineers at MIT swung into action, ... close collaboration with the MIT team. The consortium expects to quickly deliver hundreds of units to ... MIT_E_Vent_01-1024.jpg The latest version of the MIT E-Vent team's emergency ventilator design undergoes testing in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-fill-covid-19-related-ventilator-shortageMIT engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water
interconnected via thin membranes that act as natural sieves, filtering out bubbles from water and sap. MIT ... to purify water after being stored in a dry form for at least two years. MIT ... associate department head for education at MIT. “For places where the only option has been to drink ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-make-filters-tree-branches-purify-drinking-waterMIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day
Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president, ... members of the MIT community gathered to welcome Kornbluth with an academic symposium exploring the theme ... “Where Big Ideas Come From — and Why They Matter.” Held at MIT’s Samberg Conference Center and streamed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-tackle-big-ideas-symposium-kicking-inauguration-dayMIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles
further than the collaboration between MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). ... AFFOA_MIT-FIT_3415 1024.jpg New Balance Knit Innovation Designer Michelle Dunbar (standing at right) addresses ... participants in the Summer 2019 MIT and FIT AFFOA Workshop in Advanced Functional Fabrics. Photo: Garrett Souza ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-and-fashion-institute-technology-join-forces-create-innovative-textilesMIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently
could significantly reduce their energy use. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to do just that, ... scales. The new findings are described in the journal Advanced Materials in a paper by recent MIT graduate ... Youngsup Song PhD ’21, Ford Professor of Engineering Evelyn Wang, and four others at MIT. The researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-surfaces-make-water-boil-more-efficientlyThree from MIT awarded 2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
MIT graduate student Fernanda De La Torre, alumna Trang Luu ’18, SM ’20, and senior Syamantak ... graduate school. 2022_MIT_PDSoros_Fellows1024.jpg Left to right: Fernanda De La Torre, Trang Luu, and ... Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where she worked with Professor Tomaso Poggio on the theory of deep ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-awarded-2022-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansMIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each day
industrial water footprint. Founded by a team from MIT, Gradiant offers water recycling, treatment, and ... demand. MIT-Gradiant-02-PRESS.jpg Gradiant builds tailored water treatment solutions that combine chemical ... way.” Govindan attended the Indian Institute of Technology as an undergraduate, and when he came to MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-gradiant-reduces-companies%E2%80%99-water-use-and-waste-billions-gallons-each-dayMIT undertakes Grand Challenge for innovation in global vaccine manufacturing
models around such products. global-vaccine-manufacturing-mit-00_0.jpeg Challenge accepted: MIT ... Grand Challenge grant to MIT, University College London (UCL) and Kansas University to pursue an ... Christopher Love, an MIT associate professor of chemical engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-undertakes-grand-challenge-innovation-global-vaccine-manufacturingMIT engineers develop a soft, printable, metal-free electrode
inflammation that in turn can degrade an implant’s performance. Now, MIT engineers have developed a metal-free, ... biological tissue. MIT_Hydro-Electrode-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers developed a metal-free, Jell-O-like ... environmental engineering at MIT. Zhao, Yuk, and others at MIT and elsewhere report their results today in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-soft-printable-metal-free-electrodeWith a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose
and financial markets. MIT-Quantum-Clock-01-press_0.jpg Clocks, lasers, and other oscillators could be ... time, according to a new MIT study. Image: MIT News; iStock A clock’s stability depends on the noise in ... precision. But only by so much. A new MIT study finds that even if all noise from the outside world is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-%E2%80%9Csqueeze%E2%80%9D-clocks-could-keep-even-more-precise-time-mit-researchers-proposeMIT engineers design a robotic replica of the heart’s right chamber
MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle, which mimics the ... mechanical ventilation,” says Manisha Singh, a postdoc at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ... member of IMES and the associate head for research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-robotic-replica-heart%E2%80%99s-right-chamber