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A new strategy for choosing cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... become resistant. In a new approach to devising more personalized treatments, researchers at MIT and ... cells, based on how it affects their growth rates. MIT-Cancer-Cell-Mass.jpg Researchers have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-strategy-choosing-cancer-drugsHot New Solar Cell
MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar ... electricity. MIT-Solar-Thermal_1024.jpg While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same ... underlying theoretical limitations, MIT PhD student David Bierman says, “with solar thermal photovoltaics you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
An autonomous robotic system invented by researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic ... coral reef most exposed to air. MIT-Robotic-Sampling-1024.jpg Even in unexplored waters, an ... MIT-developed robotic system can efficiently sniff out valuable, hard-to-find spots to collect samples from. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons. MIT ... be able to make these batteries anywhere at low cost,” says Alsym co-founder and MIT Professor Kripa ... a telecommunications company with serial entrepreneurs and longtime members of the MIT community Ray Stata ’57, SM ’58 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futureSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ... in MIT’s mechanical engineering department who is the first author on the paper, designed a system ... MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
more than half of their crops. Kripa Varanasi, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, is working ... Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeStaff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service
Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering John E. Fernández, professor, Department of Architecture, ... On Thursday, June 5, 11 individuals and four teams were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the ... protecting and serving MIT. The medal recognizes an individual or group whose actions demonstrate the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/staff-members-honored-2025-excellence-awards-collier-medal-and-staff-award-distinctionA measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind
technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Jain and Singhal, PhD candidates in Course 2 (mechanical ... engineering) at MIT, co-founded Squirrel Devices to tackle this problem. Their first instrument aims to make ... lengths without seeing the measurements? MIT graduate students Pranay Jain and Anshul Singhal asked these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measurable-improvement-stem-access-blindA new way to find better battery materials
storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, researchers say. MIT ... MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and institutions in Tokyo and Munich. Their findings were reported ... The team included Hao-Hsun Chang at MIT; Douglas Abernathy, Dipanshu Bansal, and Olivier Delaire at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-find-better-battery-materialsRobotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
do,” says mechanical engineering graduate student Sandra Liu, co-lead author of a research paper on the ... robotic finger. Liu wrote the paper with co-lead author and mechanical engineering undergraduate student ... Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspStudent group helps blind boater sail independently
for children with autism. Xi is a mechanical engineering student and member of MIT’s sailing team. ... the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and the departments of Mechanical ... of mechanical engineering to real-world problems. “A lot of stuff we work on in classes seems either ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-group-helps-blind-boater-sail-independentlyRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “If we could design a device to reverse blood ... Mechanical Engineering, describe their soft robotic design today in the journal Science Robotics. The paper’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsHow MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and a member of MIT’s governance team on manufacturing ... MIT-Medical-Trailer-1024.jpg A team of engineers, architects, medical workers, and facilities experts has built a 60-foot ... fit-out.” Culpepper met with Tasker Smith, technical instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-built-its-own-covid-19-testing-trailer3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
scientist at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a new book that describes ways for ... MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ... engineers, Frankel is also a consultant to the MIT News Office. She spoke with MIT News about some of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceAlumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alum Prakash ... the global water crisis that inspired Govindan – who received a master’s degree in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12Hydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Hyunwoo Yuk, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a paper on the work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterAlex Kachkine
Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to ... made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he drove up the East Coast and ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Communications Department Wednesday, October 22, 2025 Alumni ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-kachkineSuper-strong surgical tape detaches on demand
Last year, MIT engineers developed a double-sided adhesive that could quickly and firmly stick ... organs,” says Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering ... at MIT. “You put the adhesive on, and if for any reason you want to take it off, you can do so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/super-strong-surgical-tape-detaches-demandDarya Guettler
process as equitable as possible.” Guettler decided to combine her mechanical engineering major with ... most looking forward to now is her capstone for mechanical engineering, 2.s009 (Explorations in Product ... equitable as possible.” Guettler decided to combine her mechanical engineering major with a degree in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/darya-guettlerAbe Schneider
entrepreneurship that permeated the campus. Gia came to MIT in 1995 and majored in chemical engineering while Abe ... followed three years later and majored in mechanical engineering for both his bachelor’s and master’s ... before starting a company. After graduation, Abe worked as a mechanical engineer and did some consulting ...
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