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Measuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility

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 ... and Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of the study. ...

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Study: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections

particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, MIT engineers have ... Engineering at MIT. “If case counts start to rise again, we know what to do: mask people, put them outside, ... stadiums,” says study author Anette “Peko” Hosoi, the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical ...

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AI-driven tool makes it easy to personalize 3D-printable models

co-senior author Stefanie Mueller, an associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering ... and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... these challenges, MIT researchers developed a generative-AI-driven tool that enables the user to add ...

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Three awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political science

award winners from MIT: Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and ... a wonderful recognition of a promising scholar." Full story at MIT SHASS News MIT Political Scientist ... of Political Science at MIT. The award recognizes the best book published over the past two years in ...

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Translating MIT research into real-world results

H. Lienhard V. “But successful commercialization of MIT technology requires engineers to focus on ... big and small,” says Eric Verploegen PhD ’08, former research engineer in MIT’s D-Lab and founder of ... MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering and a current MBA candidate at the MIT Sloan School of ...

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STE@M: Sports Technology and Education @ MIT

STE@M: Sports Technology and Education at MIT STE@M students gather around Professors Hosoi and ... Slocum, and Patagonia’s O’Hara, as well as Francisco Goya (holding MIT penant) at Goya Windsurfing. ... winter were photos of MIT students windsurfing on the sunny shores of Maui, you might have your ...

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Protecting maternal health in Rwanda

PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... Saturday, September 17, 2022 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ...

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Faculty Promotions

informed engineering choices and used in an ensemble manner, offers key advantages over widely used ... fractional factorial design approaches, enabling engineers to effectively utilize engineering knowledge to ... International Design Center at MIT and at the new Singapore University of Technology and Design. Nicolas ...

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Model quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread

MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ... studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... 15, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education International Horizontal ...

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Advocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill

Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The absence of the OTA compromises the ability of Congress to govern. ... In late March, 29 MIT graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates traveled to Washington to ... works at the intersection of research and public policy. This is the 13th consecutive year MIT students ...

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Inside two MIT students’ historic BattleBots runs

of collaborations and friendships. It’s at its core an engineering challenge, so of course MIT ... match, MIT PhD student Ginger Schmidt became the first female captain (in this case, co-captain) to win ... long-running Discovery channel show. MIT has played an outsized role in BattleBots since the show’s inception ...

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A robot that finds lost items

Mechanical Engineering. The research will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference ... figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ...

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Achieving advisory equilibrium

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT. His work has focused on dynamic systems ... Cappellaro is a professor of nuclear science and engineering. She leads the Quantum Engineering Group at the ... Center for Ultracold Atoms at MIT and is a member of the Research Lab for Electronics. Her research aims ...

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Robo-picker grasps and packs

stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ... an impact,” says Alberto Rodriguez, the Walter Henry Gale Career Development Professor in Mechanical ...

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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ... A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)

Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Entrepreneurship Maker Horizontal ... in the movie, R2-D2, stole Greiner’s heart and inspired her to apply to MIT to learn how to build ... Rodney Brooks, former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ...

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Building a better indoor herb garden

day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at  the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...

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Weighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices

Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ... Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether ... drug treatments, says Scott Manalis, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of ...

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2023-24 Takeda Fellows: Advancing research at the intersection of AI and health

fourth year, the MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda, ... The School of Engineering has selected 13 new Takeda Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year. With ... Engineering and Computer Science. Gierlach’s work combines innovative biotechnology with machine learning to ...

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News & Research

Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...

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