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Our gut-brain connection
engineering and mechanical engineering, and Rudolf Jaenisch, an MIT professor of biology and a member of MIT’s ... In many ways, our brain and our digestive tract are deeply connected. Feeling nervous may lead to ... physical pain in the stomach, while hunger signals from the gut make us feel irritable. Recent studies have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-gut-brain-connectionFour from MIT are named IEEE Fellows for 2021
are four members of the MIT community: Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical engineering ... fields and whose involvement in the engineering community has furthered the IEEE mission of promoting ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering was elevated to IEEE Fellow for her "contributions to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-are-named-ieee-fellows-2021Sometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
you’re underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents. But figuring out the best route in ... what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... Lermusiaux, the Doherty Associate Professor in Ocean Utilization, developed a mathematical procedure that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineDroplets get a charge out of jumping
postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, mechanical engineering professor Evelyn Wang, and two others. Miljkovic says this ... possible new application, Miljkovic says: By placing two parallel metal plates out in the open, with “one ... In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-get-charge-out-jumpingFrom Naval Architecture to Big Tech to MIT’s Corporation Chair
As Diane Greene SM ’78 approached the end of her undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering ... pursuing sailboat racing—a passion she had developed growing up in Annapolis, Maryland. The chair of her ... Berkeley in 1988. Greene went on to work as a software engineer, then executive, entrepreneur, and investor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/naval-architecture-big-tech-mit%E2%80%99s-corporation-chairAcoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells
departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using ... say. “Noninvasive monitoring of single-cell mechanical properties could be useful for studying many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/acoustic-waves-can-monitor-stiffness-living-cellsMIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award
in Ghana. He uses his engineering skills to help others as well, working to develop prosthetic ... a senior at MIT studying mechanical engineering, was named as the 2018 winner. “Even after 12 years, I am ... improve Camp Kesem chapters around the country. In addition to his work with Camp Kesem, Schwartz has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-federal-credit-union-presents-2018-scholarships-people-helping-people-awardLearning to Solve
Bio-inspired Photonic Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering for two years and says SuperUROP ... Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), are immersed in a graduate-level research ... mechanical engineering, is tackling another health problem, investigating a compression bandage design for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-solveCounting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads
David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ... can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... the bloodstream before being cleared by the body. Working with members of the Jacks lab in the Koch ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/counting-cells-may-shed-light-how-cancer-spreadsNew Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... been experimenting with the use of electric fields to treat malignant cells, in an alternative cancer ... Novocure, has since been founded to develop TTF therapies for people with brain and lung cancer. Pavesi, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyFour from MIT named 2025 Goldwater Scholars
a mechanical engineering and electrical engineering major, conducts research in the Conformable Decoders group, ... Scholarship, including Avani Ahuja and Jacqueline Prawira in the School of Engineering and Julianna Lian and ... engineers, and mathematicians in their respective fields. goldwater-2025_1024.jpg Avani Ahuga (top left) and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-named-2025-goldwater-scholarsWelcome to the “most wicked” apprentice program on campus
skills,” says Daniel Braunstein, senior lecturer in mechanical engineering (MechE) and director of the ... engine that converts thermal energy into mechanical work), while returning senior apprentices take on ... engineering in general,” says apprentice Jade Durham. In casting the windlasses, students are working from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/welcome-%E2%80%9Cmost-wicked%E2%80%9D-apprentice-program-campus-0Pills of the future: nanoparticles
useful in developing new treatments for conditions such as high cholesterol or arthritis. Patients with ... in a nanoparticle. The new nanoparticles are coated with antibodies that act as a key to unlock ... mechanical engineering; and Richard Blumberg, co-director of BWH’s Biomedical Research Institute. No more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-future-nanoparticlesWhat drives ecosystems to instability?
and how strongly they interact with each other. In studies of bacteria grown in the lab, the ... controlled experiments in the wild. Gore’s lab specializes in using microbes such as bacteria and yeast to ... existed in a phase called “stable full existence,” in which all species coexist without interfering with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-drives-ecosystems-instabilityDiane Greene SM ’78 elected chair of the MIT Corporation
mechanical engineering from the University of Vermont in 1976 and a master’s degree in naval architecture ... the accomplished members of the Corporation, and to work with President Reif in supporting MIT’s ... a tremendous advocate for our community. With his natural skill as a fundraiser, he led the way in securing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/diane-greene-sm-%E2%80%9978-elected-chair-mit-corporationNature Electronics Commentary: The potential of miniaturized ingestible electronics
Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering; Paul ... February 4, 2026 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Horizontal The potential ... a decision as to where development focus should turn next. One path involves developing occasionally used ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nature-electronics-commentary-potential-miniaturized-ingestible-electronicsOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... their activity with neurons in the synapses that they associate with. These studies suggest that ... developed by John Hopfield and Shun-Ichi Amari in the 1970s and 1980s, are often used to model the brain, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacityStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a chemistry, biology, and physics junior minoring in nuclear engineering; and Erica Yuen, a mechanical ... like living and working with people he didn’t know in such close quarters, Solomon says he thought ... being strangers “kind of helped because we came in with different backgrounds and mindsets. “It was so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-boxBuilding a framework for remote making
MIT-sponsored purposes,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and director of Project ... orange tools. They are also required to develop a safety plan which they will then discuss with a member ... the summer, the team will also share their experiences with peers at other institutions. “MIT is in ...
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