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Supporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout with extra-strength glass

never expected to be at the forefront of a pandemic — who does? — but his participation in the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... been the cornerstone of my career,” Kurz says. Today, MIT LGO students earn an MBA from the MIT Sloan ...

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Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs

Subirana’s co-authors are Jordi Laguarta and Ferran Hueto, of MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory.   New AI model ... symptoms of the disease. They are thus less likely to seek out testing for the virus, and could unknowingly ... spread the infection to others. But it seems those who are asymptomatic may not be entirely free of ...

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MechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award

for MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), attended the black tie affair where he ... in rural India. With the generous support of Robert Stoner, deputy director of the MIT Energy ... On June 24, Boston-area journalists, videographers, and producers filled the halls of the Marriott ...

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Measuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility

By studying both the physical and genomic features of cancer cells, MIT researchers have come up ... MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an extramural member of the Koch Institute ... Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ...

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Visual Thinking for Engineers

of mechanical engineering and engineering systems who directs MIT's Ideation Lab, conducted ... Associate professor Maria Yang studies the importance of early-stage design. Where other ... strategies for innovation, regardless of the technology. For her, innovation first manifests itself in ...

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Building robots to expand access to cell therapies

move to cell therapy comes after Parietti’s small team of mostly MIT-trained roboticists and engineers ... small batches of drugs to help companies run clinical trials more quickly. Now Multiply Labs, which was ... founded by Fred Parietti PhD ’16 and former visiting PhD at MIT Alice Melocchi, is hoping to bring the ...

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3D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving

are rotating. MIT engineers have now developed a way to easily integrate sensors into these types of ... by MIT News Even though advances in 3D printing enable rapid fabrication of rotational mechanisms, ... associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical ...

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Advocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill

works at the intersection of research and public policy. This is the 13th consecutive year MIT students ... In late March, 29 MIT graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates traveled to Washington to ... speak with members of Congress about the need for continued federal investment of science and technology ...

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More than a meal

build the first key phase of this whole project,” Rolbein says. MIT Sea Grant was able to connect the ... is to support food banks, you need places like MIT Sea Grant that see the benefits of it and can ... largest single contributor to the Northeast Blue Economy, accounting for over one-third of the region’s ...

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Icing ALS: MIT Family Reshapes Research Models

in was Alex d’Arbeloff, then chair of the MIT Corporation, who regularly “schooled” Jamie on strategy ... 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 ...

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Green Eelgrass, Blue Carbon

MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in ... fall on the MIT Sea Grant website. The work was carried out by a team of researchers that included: EPA ... effects of climate change we can better make the case for securing protection and restoration resources. ...

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An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream

solve a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle. An interdisciplinary team from MIT has found that ... Emre Gençer, a research scientist with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and a member of the team. “Our ... Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ...

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Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air

source. The system, which builds on a design initially developed three years ago at MIT by members of the ... Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; ... at MIT before the pandemic restrictions, the device produced “orders of magnitude” more total water ...

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