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place to live. Students who need a hand finding a home in the Cambridge area can contact the MIT Housing ... Office for assistance. Health Upon enrollment at MIT, students are automatically enrolled in the MIT ... the Student Requirements page on the MIT Medical web site. Tuition Support Any student who receives ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/graduate/enrollingMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
alternative to batteries — that could provide storage of electrical energy. As an example, the MIT researchers ... travel over that road. MIT-Cement-Supercapacitors-02-press.jpg: Since the new “supercapacitor” concrete ... a paper by MIT professors Franz-Josef Ulm, Admir Masic, and Yang-Shao Horn, and four others at MIT and at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsMIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, ... which they highlight today in the journal Advanced Materials. MIT ... MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “That’s what we’re doing at the nanoscale.” The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-3-d-print-colloidal-crystalsAncient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: ... smelting-courtyard-mit-1024.png MIT students and volunteers take turns working the bellows on a mud-and-straw furnace in the style ... this thousands-year-old process actually is.” Old practice, new hands In class, held in MIT’s foundry, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ancient-african-smelting-technique-sparks-anew-mitMIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards
MIT_Infininte_Cooling_Awards_1024.jpg The Infinite Cooling team accepts the $100K Diamond Winner Award at the MassChallenge Awards on ... being tested at MIT’s Central Utility Plant. Monday, October 22, 2018 Entrepreneurship International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinoff-takes-top-honor-masschallenge-awardsMIT Club of Greece hosts “Sustainable Ecosystems for the Maritime Industry”
of Greece MIT Club of Greece organized an event in June that welcomed over 400 attendees, including ... several graduates of the 2N (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) program and other MIT alumni, ... discussed MIT and Sustainable Ecosystems for the Maritime Industry in an interactive way with participants ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-club-greece-hosts-%E2%80%9Csustainable-ecosystems-maritime-industry%E2%80%9DThree MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced three MIT professors among the members of the ... mit-bush-fellows-24_0.png: Left to right: Domitilla Del Vecchio, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences & ... influential inventor, engineer, former professor, and dean of the School of Engineering at MIT, the highly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-professors-named-2024-vannevar-bush-fellows“Each of us holds a piece of the solution”
MIT has an unparalleled history of bringing together interdisciplinary teams to solve pressing ... collaboration unlike any that’s come before at MIT. “Solving climate change is not just about new technologies ... anthropologists and engineers, and more,” MIT Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang told an energetic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ceach-us-holds-piece-solution%E2%80%9DMIT Maritime Consortium releases “Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook”
Ship Safety Handbook ” by the MIT Maritime Consortium aims to change that and set the standard for safe ... (left to right) Anthony Valiaveedu, Nat Edmonds, and Jose Izurieta pose in MIT's Hart Naval ... Gallery. Credits: Tony Pulsone/MIT MechE: “This handbook is a critical tool in efforts to support the adoption of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-maritime-consortium-releases-%E2%80%9Cnuclear-ship-safety-handbook%E2%80%9DSanjay Sarma to step down as vice president for open learning
After nearly a decade running MIT’s digital learning platforms and education initiatives, Vice ... Rafael Reif announced today in an email to the MIT community. Sarma, who is the Fred Fort Flowers and ... Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been responsible for MIT Open Learning, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sanjay-sarma-step-down-vice-president-open-learningHelping underrepresented doctoral students of color thrive in the broader MIT community
The MIT University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) was founded in 2015 with an Alfred P. ... Mechanical Engineering, and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science/Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... of MIT News. UCEM engages candidates through the entire process of “thinking about a PhD, getting in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-underrepresented-doctoral-students-color-thrive-broader-mit-communitySarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
MIT senior Sarah Tress has been named a Rhodes Scholar. She will commence graduate studies at ... Oxford University next fall. MIT-Sarah-Tress-1024.jpg Photo: Ian MacLellan Each year, 32 Rhodes Scholars ... world. This year’s Rhodes Scholars from MIT bring to 53 the total number of MIT winners honored since the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sarah-tress-wins-2019-rhodes-scholarshipSaving the radome
Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, ... a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus ... MIT began a major renovation and capital improvement project for the building. That's when the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeTaking a break and making connections
In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ... the possibility of a fresh start. jahnavi-kalpathy-mit-00_460.jpg “I was going through a lot of ... calls from my family. I was unsure where my degree was taking me, or why I’d been admitted to MIT in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-break-and-making-connectionsA Revolution in Higher Education
the past. MIT Sanjay_1024.jpg Photo illustration: Len Rubenstein “As the volume of knowledge has ... a participatory learning approach,” says Sarma, director of MIT’s Office of Digital Learning. “Now there’s ... a rethinking of pedagogy where the ‘doing’ is making a comeback.” MIT is helping lead the way to this kind of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolution-higher-education“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
MIT’s thriving maker culture is on display in ABC network’s “BattleBots” competition. A robot that ... arms to grab and hoist other machines: These are some of the robots developed by MIT-affiliated teams ... teams of MIT students, research staff, and alumni worked to design, construct, and test combat robots ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9DFrom entrepreneur to climate policy advocate
ultimately patenting the product and winning several competitions. MIT-Wahnschafft-Kiara-1024.jpg Applying my ... solutions.” Wahnschafft arrived at MIT with the desire to continue pursuing product engineering for social ... entrepreneurship. She experimented with mechanical engineering classes through MIT D-Lab, a program focused on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/entrepreneur-climate-policy-advocateMeet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia
Since 2012, a handful of Saudi Arabia’s top scientists and engineers have arrived on MIT’s campus ... research at MIT. Each fellow is paired with an MIT faculty for a research project and exposed to a number ... of professional development opportunities. MIT-Khaldun-Fellowship-02-1024.jpg In July, current and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-women-shaping-science-and-engineering-saudi-arabiaA Lifelong Relationship with the Institute
Newly tenured Evelyn Wang — whose parents met at MIT — studies heat transfer in materials. While ... Evelyn Wang (SB '00), an associate professor of mechanical engineering, attended MIT as an ... as graduate students from Taiwan, and married, in the MIT Chapel. MIT-evelyn-wang_460.jpg Photo by: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifelong-relationship-instituteA safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors
area. MIT engineers have now devised a way to make this kind of deployment safer, by encasing bacterial ... spreading modified genes to other organisms. MIT-Bacteria-Containment-1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised ... interacting with other microbes in the environment. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT Credits: “Right now there ...
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