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Quick Test for Ebola
treatment and isolation. A new test from MIT researchers could change that: The device, a simple paper strip ... symptoms and it’s not clear what they have,” says Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, a visiting scientist in MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebolaWhy have solar energy costs fallen?
MIT researchers have been awarded a grant of nearly $1.3 million through the U.S. Department of ... investigator Jessika Trancik, associate professor in MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... affiliates of the MIT Energy Initiative — and Robert Margolis of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-have-solar-energy-costs-fallenHarder, better, faster, stronger
a Formula-style electric race car from the ground up. Every year. For students who are members of MIT Motorsports ... — a.k.a. the MIT Formula SAE (FSAE) team, originally founded in 2001 — that task determines how they spend ... shrug at. MIT's team passed all inspections, placed fourth in vehicle cost (spending the least ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harder-better-faster-strongerMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ... that underpins the future of mobility and autonomous systems: energy storage. MIT’s Martin Bazant, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityCombined energy and water system could provide for millions
efficiently using clean-energy resources, a team of researchers from MIT and the University of Hawaii has ... Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. "There was not the extreme ... and his co-authors — Maha Haji, Sasan Ghaemsaidi, and Marco Ferrara of MIT; and A Zachary Trimble of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/combined-energy-and-water-system-could-provide-millionsPowered by the sun
On a recent April afternoon, MIT sophomore Francis Wang drove out of the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 ... late nights in the student shop. Flux-on-road-in-Georgia 1024.jpg In January, Flux and the MIT Solar ... Electric Vehicle Team went on a road-testing trip in Georgia. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunLet it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
researchers can find safe substitutes. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a promising solution: a coating ... Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Kripa Varanasi and Karen Gleason, former MIT postdoc Dan Soto, and ... ones most in use. What this MIT team did, Varanasi explains, is to combine two things: a shorter-chain ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproofAcoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells
MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using ... different types of cellular processes,” says Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT ... departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/acoustic-waves-can-monitor-stiffness-living-cellsJ-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have ... and food systems to MIT’s innovation ecosystem through the J-WAFS Solutions grant program. The program ... provides one-year, renewable, commercialization grants aimed to support MIT principal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-grants-advance-sustainable-agricultureFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
In early October, the MIT International Design Center and the MIT Edgerton Center hosted a panel ... chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsAccelerating the pace of engineering
company sold its very first order — 10 copies of its first product, MATLAB — to MIT. Decades later, ... engineers across MIT and around the world consistently rely on MathWorks products to accelerate the pace of ... and MIT’s digital learning efforts across campus, including the Department of Mathematics, one of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-pace-engineeringSynthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion
By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ... Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... Junwei Li, a postdoc at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the lead author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-coating-gi-tract-could-deliver-drugs-or-aid-digestionWhat drives ecosystems to instability?
communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ... a professor of physics at MIT. “We can trace out a boundary that predicts the loss of stability and the onset ... Science. Jiliang Hu, an MIT graduate student, is the lead author of the paper. Other authors include Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-drives-ecosystems-instabilityCan your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?
study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ... accelerometer data,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Sensable City Laboratory and co-author of a new paper ... MIT; and Ratti, who is also professor of the practice in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-your-phone-tell-if-bridge-good-shapeTeam uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications
a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used ... says Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Engineering and a professor in MIT ... Amherst, and Emre Tekoğlu and Alexander O’Brien, both of MIT. Li, who is also affiliated with the Materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-uses-3d-printing-strengthen-key-material-aerospace-energy-generation-applicationsSchool of Engineering awards for 2023
Each year, the MIT School of Engineering honors outstanding faculty, students, and staff across ... the following members of the engineering community at MIT as winners of its 2023 awards. Faculty and ... education at MIT.” This year’s recipients include: Kevin Chen, the D. Reid Weedon, Jr. Assistant Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2023Making life friendlier with personal robots
Alghowinem says she dreamed of coming to MIT one day to develop Arabic-based technologies, and of creating ... MIT as a postdoc with the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women, which is housed in the MIT ... the founder of the Personal Robots Group (PRG) and the social robot startup Jibo Inc., MIT Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-life-friendlier-personal-robotsNew model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ... predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... absorbability of new drugs by adding excipients that enhance their interactions with transporters. Former MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-identifies-drugs-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-taken-together“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"
Dhawan Willeman, an MIT graduate student studying maritime shipping and innovation. “A ship is so huge ... engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... shipbuilding at MIT starting in 1971. With support from the American Bureau of Shipping, Willeman and Marcus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-whosoever-commands-sea-commands-tradeSearching for Global Water and Food Solutions
issues need complex solutions, and, for that, MIT has created the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food ... approach, coupled with MIT’s unique capabilities, that will set the lab apart and bring innovative solutions ... provide MIT is having a clear presence in solving global food needs. The impact of population growth is ...
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