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From triathlons to aerospace, Caitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21 pursues passions for leadership and manufacturing

training in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program — wherein she obtained both her MBA and SM ... process can often take six months to a year.) While engineering is important, Braun is most excited about ... in mechanical engineering — helped her balance diplomacy with technical discipline. So did a 2020 ...

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MIT MechE Research Exhibition Showcases Breadth of Student and Postdoc Innovation

Design, Impact, and Presentation The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering held its 2026 Research ... Association of MechE (GAME) in partnership with the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. For more ... biomedical engineering. A Showcase of Diverse Research MERE 2026 reflected the remarkable breadth of ...

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Four MIT seniors win Marshall Scholarships

Technology and Civil and Environmental Engineering and co-chair of MIT’s Presidential Committee on ... Career Development Assistant Professor in Materials Engineering at MIT, developing methods for remote ... Four MIT seniors — Kate Koch, Colleen Loynachan, Kirin Sinha, and Grace Young — are among 34 new ...

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Immune action at a distance

Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. “Now, with ... chemical engineering perspective?” says Rosenboom. The interdisciplinary team determined that the injected ... MIT-Koch-Institute-Traverso-Tumor-Gel.png Researchers from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital have ...

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Charles Stuard Woodard

up on the South Side of Chicago, envisioned a future in engineering at MIT. Childhood experiences ... By the time he was in the seventh grade, he knew he wanted to attend MIT for engineering. However, he ... co-founding the MIT BoSTEM Scholars Academy. The four-week summer program gives high school students valuable ...

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Student robot competition honors the legacy of the late beloved professor, Woodie Flowers

future engineers as a professor at MIT, a co-founder of the global FIRST Robotics Competition, and host ... shaped the engineering curriculum at MIT. In what was a radical educational method at the time, Flowers ... reflected in the gameboards where robots designed and built by mechanical engineering students compete for ...

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Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT

the MIT campus on Sept. 29. Wright earned a BS in mechanical engineering and spent two and a half ... Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Post-Tenure, a special advisor to the MIT ... a new five-year joint program, the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance, featuring research ...

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Taking a leap in bioinspired robotics

in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... mechanical engineering graduate program. There, he experienced his first taste of design freedom. “That was ... closing valves. MIT-SangbaeKim-A1-1024.jpg “Say there are toxic gases leaking in a building, and you need ...

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Turning history of science into a comic adventure

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IMES, and the MIT Libraries. “We wanted to use visual art ... author; John Durant, then-director of the MIT Museum and adjunct professor in the MIT Program in Science, ... that goal in mind, one MIT team recently transformed themselves into time-traveling comic book ...

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Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships

Fulbright U.S. Student Program should contact Julia Mongo, MIT Fulbright program advisor, in the Office of ... physics mentorship program, and the MIT Lion Dance team. After Fulbright, Cheng will pursue a PhD in ... ’22 completed her undergraduate education at MIT with degrees in both electrical engineering and ...

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Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads

can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ... Engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the senior author of the ...

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Sylas Horowitz

collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... Santa Catarina Palopó in northern Guatemala. Through the Tata-MIT GridEdge Solar Research program, they ... were accepted to MIT on Pi Day 2018. Art, architecture, engineering — “it’s all kind of the same,” ...

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Legena Henry SM ’10

engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ... Lab of Future Barbados, is working to scale up production in advance of its first pilot program ... says she credits MIT for showing her how the best solutions come from a multidisciplinary approach. It ...

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Legena Henry

engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ... Lab of Future Barbados, is working to scale up production in advance of its first pilot program ... says she credits MIT for showing her how the best solutions come from a multidisciplinary approach. It ...

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David Hesslink

mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing baseball.” That started to ... as part of a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program). Together they worked with the Houston ... achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball team. At a game against the United ...

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From 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 ... department, who had a PhD from MIT, had another idea: “Rather than go sailing, I think what you should do is ... go to MIT and study naval architecture.” It was a piece of advice that she credits with changing the ...

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Bringing meaningful technologies to market

MIT-Student-Chun-01-1024.jpg After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management ... a lecturer in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the Department of Political Science. ... The MIT senior and Rhodes Scholar co-founded Need-A-Knee, LLC his sophomore year, after working on ...

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New African and African diaspora studies major takes off at MIT

desire to create a social impact through engineering, led her to forge a new path at MIT ... Commencement 2022 marked a milestone in MIT’s history, as Stacy Godfreey-Igwe ’22 became the first ... mechanical engineering and is now a fellow at the Science Technology Policy Institute in Washington. She ...

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Training STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential

partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... program, and the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition. During the 2017-2018 school year, PEN ... In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ...

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Heather Beem