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New gels could help the medicine go down

Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ...

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Lifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram

unrelenting seeker of the most precise ocean science and engineering truths. He was a member of the MIT team ... undergraduate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, adding naval architecture ... dynamics, and numerical marine hydrodynamics in the MIT Department of Ocean Engineering, he has also ...

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Faithfully supporting well-being

“Kamal is a gift to MIT, the students, and the general world at large.”  The Committed to Caring program ... a mentoring guidepost defined by the Committed to Caring (C2C) program. Students are grateful for Zuckerman ... Transportation Planning at MIT, Zhao founded and directs the JTL Urban Mobility Lab. He brings behavioral science ...

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A 3D printable tissue adhesive

MIT researchers introduce a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive that can be used to ... a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... diverse applications.” MIT researchers have introduced a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive ...

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Wind power — even without the wind

Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ... be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that ...

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The most interesting startup in America is in Massachusetts. You’ve probably never heard of it.

mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of the most interesting startup in America. It’s called ... Aerospace uses the machines to build fuel nozzles for its jet engines; rather than welding together 20 ... more easily graft onto, complex computer-cooling devices, and small missile engines. Until a couple of ...

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Department News

engineering and computer science at MIT, is internationally recognized for his work with MechE Professor ... University College Dublin, and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. His PhD research is ... $1.1 million in prizes. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering was a big winner, with ...

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MIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga

a solitary, slow-moving, yet surprisingly agile game of Jenga. The robot, developed by MIT engineers, is ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the robot demonstrates something that’s ... In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently ...

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Cookstoves and Connections in the Himalaya

MIT D-Lab "In this time of isolation, this trip was a precious chance to connect with the ... universities."   The project and the team In January 2022, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period, a team ... from  MIT D-Lab  visited North India and Nepal to conduct field research regarding firewood cooking and ...

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Jim Christian

Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ... trails and snow-capped mountains. Safely within the halls of MIT, Christian was charged with designing ...

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MIT continues to advance toward greenhouse gas reduction goals

At MIT, making a better world often starts on campus. That’s why, as the Institute works to find ... solutions to complex global problems, MIT has taken important steps to grow and transform its physical ... like MIT grow, and simultaneously work to lessen its greenhouse gas emissions and contributions to ...

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Richard Li

seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. MIT has ... by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an antibacterial, ... “This is meaningful to me and how I spent my time the past four years at MIT, and we now have the best ...

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Letting robots manipulate cables

Dong, and Neha Sunil; Alberto Rodriguez, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering; and Edward ... Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT CSAIL can handle cables with ... a group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) pursued ...

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Randall Briggs

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

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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... which is led by Nathaniel Hanson. The program is conducted out of the laboratory's  Human ... tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ...

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Joe Brown

engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own theme park.” Brown’s passion for ... as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after graduation that dance became ... a bigger part of Brown’s life. “I joined [MIT’s competitive hip hop team]  Ridonkulous  post-graduation and ...

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Innovations in water accessibility

Through Xylem’s two-year Engineering Leadership Development Program, Klise will rotate between three ... her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... thinking about water accessibility from an engineer’s perspective, and how the way people get water is so ...

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Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy

graduate research in the MIT Technology and Policy Program. Originally from the small Balkan country of ... in the Technology and Policy Program (TPP), hosted by the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and ... Society (IDSS). His research with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the ...

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There’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus

Professor of Engineering at MIT, and also a composer of experimental music. “This is the beginning of ... SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT ... work with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and PhD student Yiwen Hu, Buehler  discovered  that the proteins ...

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