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Two MIT Faculty Win 2016 NSF CAREER Awards

for improved security of power systems. Since the inception of the award, 206 MIT affiliated faculty ... and inspire a future generation of scholars. The National Science Foundation (NSF) honored 160 new ... MIT faculty members James Swan, assistant professor in chemical engineering, and  Konstantin Turitsyn, ...

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New Faculty

systems. He is the founder and director of the MIT Mobility Lab and the principal inventor of the Leveraged ... R&D 100 award. He received the 2010 MIT School of Engineering Graduate Student Extraordinary Teaching ... Engineering is in an exciting period of faculty renewal, with four faculty searches this year in ...

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To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays

ray’s gills. The MIT team has shown that the dimensions of these plates may allow for incoming plankton ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled ... author and MIT postdoc Xinyu Mao PhD ’24. “People can choose a parameter regime of the mobula ray so they ...

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Graduate student Sami Khan receives research award

recently received a research award from the Hydro Research Foundation. Khan — who conducts research in MIT ... professor Kripa Varanasi's Lab for Nanoengineered Surfaces, Interfaces, and Coatings — was one of 12 ... coatings that aim to enhance the longevity of hydropower water conveyance structures.  Friday, June 27, ...

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More than 25 from MIT Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists in 2016

screening of more than 15,000 nominations. Following are the MIT affiliates who were selected.  Peter Bailis ... ’10  (Enterprise Tech) Co-founders of Nylas “While studying computer science and physics at MIT ... Suono Bio “Schoellhammer, a student of MIT professors Daniel Blankschtein and Robert Langer, invented ...

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Eleven MIT students accept 2019 Fulbright Fellowships

Development. The MIT winners are: Annamarie "Anna" Bair ’18 earned a bachelor of science in computer ... is a senior in MIT’s Scheller Teaching Education Program graduating with a bachelor of science in ... Eleven MIT graduating seniors and current graduate students have been named winners in the ...

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Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves

A team of researchers at MIT and a spinoff company they launched has developed a system to do just that. ... Rufer, and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. A recent study  found that if farmers ... often inherently water-repellent. “Over more than a decade of research in my lab at MIT, we have ...

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2017-18

faculty, and proportion of international students. MIT earned a perfect overall score of 100. MIT was also ... MIT has been ranked as the top university in the world in the latest QS World University Rankings. ... reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, student-to-faculty ratio, proportion of international ...

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2024-25

international faculty, and proportion of international students. MIT was also ranked the world’s top university ... MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the 13th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. The full 2025 ...

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