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MIT alumnus to compete in Winter Olympics
at MIT and former competitive body builder, Edelman caught the Olympic bug while watching the Olympic ... playing sports after I left MIT,” Edelman says. “Skeleton is an eye-catching sport and seemed like the ... me of those late nights at MIT,” Edelman says. “If you had an assignment due the next morning, it was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-alumnus-compete-winter-olympicsJ-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has transformed the landscape of ... water and food research at MIT, driving faculty engagement and catalyzing new research and innovation in ... direct research funding to support MIT faculty pursuing transformative research with the potential for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-supporting-food-and-water-research-across-mitThree awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political science
award winners from MIT: Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and ... a wonderful recognition of a promising scholar." Full story at MIT SHASS News MIT Political Scientist ... of Political Science at MIT. The award recognizes the best book published over the past two years in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-awards-mit-research-anthropology-economics-and-political-science3 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment
urgent. Institutions and organizations across the country – including MIT – have been scrambling to ... a recent memo, MIT faculty members Martin Culpepper, Peter Fisher, and Elazer Edelman, with input from Neil ... Manus, and a member of MIT’s governance team on manufacturing opportunities for Covid-19. Here, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-risks-using-3d-printing-make-personal-protective-equipmentSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Photo Courtesy of MIT News. Navid Azizan will join the MIT faculty with dual appointments in the ... application, which will lead to collaborations across DMSE and in the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of ... computer science from MIT; her MS in biomedical engineering from Oxford University; and two BS degrees, in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-23 questions with James H. Williams, Jr., professor of mechanical engineering
engineering knowledge, joy, and teaching style that have inspired generations of MIT students as well as ... Fellow. He is also the first MIT professor to be named the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching ... simultaneously, a decision that Williams attributes to the “brilliantly synergistic vision” of MIT Press Director ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-james-h-williams-jr-professor-mechanical-engineeringA new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome
However, MIT biological and mechanical engineers have now designed a specialized device in which they can ... Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. “We showed that you can grow ... new-micro-model-1024.jpg MIT biological and mechanical engineers have designed a specialized device in which they can grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tool-modeling-human-gut-microbiomeSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical ... Science (EECS), which jointly reports into the School of Engineering and the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman ... experimental approaches in tandem, his research program at MIT will focus on the intersection of material ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-3Liberty Ladd: Going above and beyond
particular — Ladd knew she wanted to study political science entering MIT. Also wanting a double major in ... participated in the Air Force ROTC throughout her time at MIT. Following graduation, Ladd will serve in the ... Hilton MIT News interviewed Ladd to learn more about her life as a student. Q: What are your communities ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/liberty-ladd-going-above-and-beyondAUVs: From Idea to Implementation
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ... four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability ... $250,000 per day. For the past two decades, MIT researchers have been working on a different approach, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/auvs-idea-implementationTalking Shop with Professor John Leonard
Associate Department Head for Research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses ... University of Oxford (1994). http://marinerobotics.mit.edu/ John Google.jpg Professor John Leonard trying the ... to make sure it works nearly 100% of the time. AT MIT, we’re really lucky because CSAIL just ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-leonard3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles
As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor ... member of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. His research addresses navigation and mapping for ... trucks. Monday, August 3, 2020 MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future Education JLEONARD@MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-john-leonard-future-autonomous-vehicles3Q: John Heywood on the future of the internal combustion engine
Heywood, the Sun Jae Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, joined auto industry propulsion ... engines. In the late 1960s, Heywood joined MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab, where he started researching why ... recharging for MIT Energy Initiatives’ “Mobility of the Future” project. If you own a battery electric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-john-heywood-future-internal-combustion-engineNavigating blindfolded
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ... four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability ... repeating itself or going astray, all the while generating a map that shows the surface of interest. An MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-blindfolded3 Questions: A shared vocabulary for how infectious diseases spread
infectious pathogens through the air. Lydia Bourouiba, the director of the MIT Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... Transmission Laboratory and the Fluids and Health Network, an associate professor in the MIT departments of ... pathogens. Bourouiba spoke with MIT News about the new WHO guidance. Q: How did you become involved in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-shared-vocabulary-how-infectious-diseases-spread3 Questions: Engineering hurricane barriers of the future
Oceans at MIT's Genevieve Wanucha sat down with Chiang C. Mei, Ford Professor Emeritus of ... Engineering in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to ask for his perspective on the ... Wanucha | Oceans at MIT Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-engineering-hurricane-barriers-futureMaking a remarkable material even better
increase haze. Comparing aerogels from MIT and elsewhere How much difference does their approach make? “Our ... test it “in the field” — in this case, on the roof of an MIT building. On a sunny day in winter, they ... Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences; and the MIT Tata Center for Technology and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-remarkable-material-even-betterTalking Shop: Professor Ian W. Hunter
Zealand, where he is an honorary professor, and has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since ... Electronic and Electrical Engineers. He is the director of MIT’s BioInstrumentation Lab. Monday, December 10, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-ian-w-hunter