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Bio-Inspired Robotics

students study simple, everyday movements before building biomimetic robots. MIT Mechanical Engineering ... building biomimetic robots. MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore ...

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Susan Su

a mechanical engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been ... year, working with a biomedical engineering group at Tsinghua University. But the lab was relatively ... despite how different we were.” Su returned to MIT with a new appreciation for theater, not only as an art ...

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SAE honors MIT researchers for best paper

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recently presented three researchers in the Department ... of Mechanical Engineering — C. Justin Kamp, Alex G. Sappok, and Victor W. Wong — with the 2014 Arch ... chosen from thousands of papers published in 2012. The work was supported by an MIT research consortium ...

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Three MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows

Prather is the Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering and a co-director of the MIT Energy ... Three current MIT faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the ... Hewitt is the Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics in the Department of ...

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Five from MIT earn Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology

assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. He plans to use the Simons award to ... Prior to MIT, Lambert completed his BS in civil and environmental engineering at the University of ... Four current and former MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program students (MIT ...

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With campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT

In 2015, MIT set a goal to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 32 percent ... MIT has reduced campus emissions by 24 percent over the past five years. Cumulative efforts to reduce ... outreach, as well as calling on MIT to use its campus operations and community as a test bed for change. ...

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For MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Faith Brooks, the sky’s the limit

could you get a better education in ocean engineering than MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ... Faith Brooks, a graduate student in the  MIT-WHOI Joint Program, has had a clear dream since the ... naval aviator, taking her one step closer to her dream. The USNA also helped guide her path to MIT. Her ...

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Eight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2018

Eight MIT faculty members are among 213 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the ... culture, and education. Those elected from MIT this year are: Alexei Borodin, professor of mathematics; ... Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of the Department of ...

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