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A scientific approach to education reform
normal be? Sanjay Sarma, MIT’s vice president for open learning, sees this unprecedented upheaval as ... drawn on his years of experience directing MIT’s many online learning systems, ... Sarma describes as “winnowing” — progressively sorting out the best and brightest students from the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientific-approach-education-reformA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso and James ... National Cancer Institute, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the U.S. Advanced Research ... of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Iowa have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapyThe most interesting startup in America is in Massachusetts. You’ve probably never heard of it.
mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of the most interesting startup in America. It’s called ... the leading edge of a push to transform 3-D printing from a niche technology — best known for ... Aerospace uses the machines to build fuel nozzles for its jet engines; rather than welding together 20 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/most-interesting-startup-america-massachusetts-you%E2%80%99ve-probably-never-heard-itMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... Engineering at MIT, is developing a microbial alternative to the Haber-Bosch process. Some farms have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeManipulating the future
systems. Last fall, MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science launched a new ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Tedrake developed the course after robotic manipulation became the new focus ... in robotic manipulation that fascinates them. Undergraduate engineering student David von Wrangel is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manipulating-futureMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... needles. Now, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be ... pigs. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowMirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
background. Now, engineers at MIT have developed a small, mirrored chip that helps to produce dark-field ... Kolle, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But when Cecile made the first surfaces we ... 23, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT engineers including Associate Professor Mathias ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mirrored-chip-could-enable-handheld-dark-field-microscopesDeveloping tech for, and with, people with disabilities
a wheelchair to avoid such situations. ATHack-2019-Ellen-MIT-1024.jpg ATHack participants Borja Apaolaza ... (center) and Naroa Coretti (right) consult with co-designer Ellen. Photo courtesy of the MIT Assistive ... pairs teams of students, most but not all of whom study at MIT, with people from the Boston and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-tech-and-people-disabilitiesPioneering the future of materials extraction
interview with MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program in 2023. At SiTration, mining was not yet a market focus, ... Lauren Paul | Department of Materials Science and Engineering Horizontal MIT spinout SiTration looks to ... facing Brendan Smith PhD ’18, co-founder and CEO of SiTration, a startup formed out of MIT’s Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-future-materials-extractionMechE Professors Named “Highly Cited Researchers”
authored multiple papers which rank in the top 1 percent by citations for their field and publication year. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-professors-named-%E2%80%9Chighly-cited-researchers%E2%80%9DMission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
engineering at MIT and graduate student Brooks Reed and colleagues, which was just accepted into the ... If you take a stroll past the MIT Sailing Pavilion on Memorial Drive, you may see, among the usual ... article Monday, October 7, 2013 Genevieve Wanucha | Oceans at MIT blue hover@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-tulip-robotic-pursuit-charles-riverHow to make oxygen on the moon
Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... everything we can on Earth now,” says Brant White, a program manager at Sierra Space, a private company. “The ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-oxygen-moonMIT 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-dayWind power — even without the wind
Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ... be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windSmart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”
farmers,” says Susan Amrose, research scientist with the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at MIT ... fruition,” says Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering and MIT GEAR Lab ... farmers can’t continue with their current practices.” 1024PA.jpg Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-irrigation-technology-covers-%E2%80%9Cmore-crop-drop%E2%80%9DThis flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes
lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ... and structures can achieve. MIT-Shape-Shifters-1024.jpg A lattice structure, originally printed flat, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changesHow to prevent biofilms in space
a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ... Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering and founder of a company called LiquiGlide, which makes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceNominations now open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
The MIT Sea Grant College Program has announced that nominations are now open for the Doherty ... director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program, following review and recommendations from the Sea Grant ... Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nominations-now-open-doherty-professorship-ocean-utilizationNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisMIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America
main collaborators — MIT, UVG, and AGEXPORT. AT MIT, the program will be led by Professor Daniel Frey ... of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and from MIT D-Lab, Associate Director for Research ... effort. guatemalan-woman-workshop-1024.jpg MIT D-Lab and the Department of Mechanical Engineering will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-15m-usaid-award-promote-research-and-innovation-universities-latin-america