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Faculty Promotions

2005 and, before joining MIT, worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann ...   We are pleased to announce the promotions of Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio and Professor ... Evelyn Wang, each from the rank of Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor without Tenure, ...

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New system recovers fresh water from power plants

A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... MIT’s Central Utility Plant, a natural-gas cogeneration power plant that provides most of the campus’ ...

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High-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool

launch them into the air. Now MIT scientists have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into ... in agricultural runoff. MIT engineers have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into a deep ... MIT News The team carried out experiments in which they dispensed water droplets of various sizes and ...

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Weighing particles at the attogram scale

MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ... Nathan Cermak is also a lead author of the paper, and Manalis, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ...

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PhD student recognized by International Desalination Association

MIT doctoral candidate Ronan K. McGovern SM '12 has received the Best Presentation Award of ... by the International Desalination Association. The award was presented "in recognition of ... judged this paper to have the best combination of scientific and technical innovation, relevance to the ...

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Advancing the energy transition amidst global crises

mitigation is drastically short of what it needs to be,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative ... Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. ... Political Science and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. John E. Parsons, deputy director for ...

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New Faculty

Kolpak graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a BA in biochemistry, an MS in ... chemistry, and a PhD in physical chemistry. She worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Department of ... Applied Physics at Yale University, and then in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering here ...

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Aspiring to sustainable development

co-principal investigator of ASPIRE at MIT and director of the MIT Local Innovation Group. The students’ work ... them.” MIT students participated in some of UVG’s most ambitious ASPIRE research. For instance, Sydney ... waste to filter Two MIT undergraduates joined one of UVG’s long-standing projects: addressing pollution ...

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MIT engineers design flexible “skeletons” for soft, muscle-powered robots

Design at MIT. “We are giving roboticists a new set of rules to make powerful and precise muscle-powered ... Culpepper’s group at MIT specializes in the design and fabrication of machine elements such as miniature ... natural muscles. They’ve demonstrated a handful of “biohybrid” robots that use muscle-based actuators to ...

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A robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight

got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the  MIT ... Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ... In the hunt for signs of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 — which disappeared on March 8 after ...

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Alum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market

Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... transport. With the assistance of MIT’s Translational Fellows Program (TFP), McGovern has been able to focus ... year of the program, which was created by Yoel Fink, the director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of ...

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Two MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards

Two films produced by MIT were honored with Emmy nominations by the National Academy of Television ... “We Are the Forest,” produced by MIT Video Productions (MVP) at MIT Open Learning, was one of six ... of the  MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble,  MIT Wind Ensemble, and  MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble in the Brazilian ...

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From counting blood cells to motion capture, sensors drive patient-centered research

and other electronic systems. The symposium also celebrated the re-opening of the MIT Center for ... facilities — MIT.nano and the new CCTR,” says Brian Anthony, the associate director of MIT.nano and principal ... research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “MIT.nano has the tools to support ...

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MIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition

In early January 2018, MIT professor John Lienhard opened an unexpected email. A panel of water ... Group at MIT focuses on developing technologies for clean water through a wide variety of approaches, ... MIT and J-WAFS. Patrick Decker, CEO of Xylem Inc., was recognized for the way he is driving the ...

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How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light

concentrated sunlight by a factor of several thousand. But the MIT researchers say that after further ... scientist Ivan Celanović. The work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through MIT’s Solid-State ... A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ...

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