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Six from MIT awarded 2026 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

for graduate studies. Six MIT affiliates — Denisse Córdova Carrizales SM ’26; Ria Das ’21, MNG ’22; ... physics at MIT this fall. The fellowship provides immigrants and the children of immigrants up to $90,000 ... show in New York. Ria Das Das ’21, MNG ’22 is a PhD student in the MIT Department of Electrical ...

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Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023

five faculty members from MIT. Joshua Angrist, Gang Chen, Catherine Drennan, Dina Katabi, and Gregory ... members. Among the new members added this year are eight MIT alumni, including Thomas Banks PhD ’73; Joan ... Katabi, Gregory Stephanopoulos Joshua Angrist Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT ...

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Students build assistive technologies at MIT’s annual ATHack

MIT. It is a one-day event that brings people living with disabilities — called co-designers — together ... structural optimizations for power soccer league wheelchairs, and more. ATHack 2018 1024.JPG MIT ... and a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. The event was founded in 2014 by a group of ...

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Icing ALS: MIT Family Reshapes Research Models

Professor John Heywood SM ’62, PhD ’65 and his two sons, Jamie ‘91 and Ben ’93, have used MIT ... Rafael Reif and the mechanical engineering faculty recently took the chilly dunks — with a decidedly MIT ... quickly. MIT was pivotal in starting ALS TDI and its approach, Jamie Heywood says. The first major investor ...

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Two MIT Faculty Win 2016 NSF CAREER Awards

MIT faculty members James Swan, assistant professor in chemical engineering, and  Konstantin Turitsyn, ... for improved security of power systems. Since the inception of the award, 206 MIT affiliated faculty ...

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First Annual MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Awards Presented

Lorna Gibson wins for 3.032 Mechanical Behavior of Materials This year marks the launch of the MIT ... teaching and learning at MIT. The winners are: Peter Dourmashkin, senior lecturer in the Department of ... using digital technology, and inspire the entire MIT community by sharing the winners’ stories. Students ...

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After MIT, new officers will serve their country

A few hours after they received their MIT diplomas on the Institute’s famed Killian Court, 12 ... military. “You embody the best of MIT,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif told the new crop of surface warfare ... the cadets’ newly minted insignias, the graduates of MIT’s Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) took ...

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Maker Break: A celebration of making at MIT

life during Maker Break, the first annual celebration of making at MIT that took place on April 17 at ... 700 MIT students took a much needed break from their studies and tapped into their creative sides for ... the MIT community. Participants were rewarded with lunch from a selection of food trucks, including ...

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MIT Motorsports unveils their 2019 electric race car

In an event attended by more than 100 members of the MIT community — friends, family, faculty, ... staff, students, and sponsors — the MIT Motorsports team unveiled their 2019 electric race car in Lobby ... 13 in April. Introducing the evening, team captain and MIT junior Serena Grown-Haeberli thanked each ...

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MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2023

individuals to their 2023 class of fellows. Among them are two members of the MIT Koch Institute for ... addition, 11 MIT alumni were also recognized. The highest professional distinction accorded solely to ... count them both among the Koch Institute’s and MIT’s research community.” Daniel Anderson is the Joseph ...

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