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Bringing life to computer models of marine microbes
The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesProfessors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
MIT professors Ahmed Ghoniem and Katherine “Kate” Kellogg have been selected as the most recent ... Committed to Caring seeks to recognize and celebrate MIT faculty members who go above and beyond to make an ... Graduate students nominate faculty who have made a difference in their lives during their time at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringGraphene holds up under high pressure
But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... possibilities for energy-efficient desalination at high salinities.” Karnik’s co-authors are lead author and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureIngestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ... tract. Traverso is one of the senior authors of the study, along with Robert Langer, an MIT Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-electronic-device-detects-breathing-depression-patientsA low-tech solution for high-impact health care
first-ever hackathon. Photo courtesy of the MIT Innovation Initiative. Most ailments are easily treatable if ... or technology, a team of MIT undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students from multiple disciplines set ... Rome on the weekend of March 8-11. Student organizers from Harvard University and MIT worked with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-tech-solution-high-impact-health-careResearch update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces
Researchers at MIT have followed up on their discovery that droplets of water acquire an electric ... reported in the journal ACS Nano by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical ... engineering Evelyn Wang, graduate student Daniel Preston, and former postdoc Ryan Enright. The finding could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-update-electric-fields-can-push-droplets-surfacesA data-driven response to a pandemic
elections — and has raised difficult questions about MIT’s capacity to reopen in the fall. To help ... policymakers at MIT and beyond make informed decisions, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) has ... Munther Dahleh, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). “Probability and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-response-pandemicRobotic 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 ... hope.” Zhao and his team, including lead author Yoonho Kim, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ... a research engineer at MIT D-Lab. They are also collaborating with researchers at the University of Nairobi ... refrigeration. To address this challenge, an MIT research team funded by a 2019 seed grant from the Abdul Latif ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenyaA creative desire, and the grit to get it done
When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... engineering and creative writing. Photo Credit: Ian MacLellan Then, in the spring semester of her first year, ... she signed up for Class 2.00a (Fundamentals of Engineering Design). That semester, the focus of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creative-desire-and-grit-get-it-doneNew parameters in graduate mentoring
than any other on-campus resource, according to the most recent MIT Enrolled Graduate Student Survey. ... for holistic graduate mentorship at MIT. Three of the most recent honorees, professors Cullen Buie, ... Engineering, “and I’m constantly trying to figure out how to be more available for the people I mentor.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoringPreview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects
Mueller, an associate professor of EECS and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and a member of CSAIL. The ... waste time, effort, and material. MIT researchers developed an easy-to-use tool that generates an ... envision how a fabricated object will look, researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed an easy-to-use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/preview-tool-helps-makers-visualize-3d-printed-objectsAlumni Spotlight: Professor David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ’06)
Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ... David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology at Georgia Institute of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-david-hu-sb-%E2%80%9901-phd-%E2%80%9906Illuminating a complex disease
Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ... infertility, but very little is known about how it arises. In 2009, biological engineer Linda Griffith launched ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illuminating-complex-diseaseHydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... bond. Hydrogel superglue.jpg Engineered hydrogel being pulled away from a glass surface. The material ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterWearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ... tables or chairs, or determine whether a chair is already occupied. Researchers from MIT’s Computer ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; his fellow first author Hsueh-Cheng Wang, who was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wearable-system-helps-visually-impaired-users-navigateMicroscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections
images fuzzy. In an open access paper in Scientific Reports, a collaboration of MIT engineers and ... of mechanical engineering and biological engineering at MIT. Newer single-line and the mosTF systems ... that have been engineered to fluoresce when stimulated. The new system proved in the team’s tests to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscope-system-sharpens-scientists%E2%80%99-view-neural-circuit-connectionsSeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... — a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaTeaching robots how to move objects
engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ... undergraduate career. She studied mathematics and engineering physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsSuper-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 ...
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