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Global MIT At-Risk Fellows Program expands to invite Palestinian scholars
for Ukrainian researchers, its architects expressed hope that GMAF would eventually expand to include ... research experiences of international faculty and researchers displaced by humanitarian crises, GMAF brings ... international scholars to MIT for semester-long study and research meant to benefit their regions of origin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/global-mit-risk-fellows-program-expands-invite-palestinian-scholarsSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25
new cohort of faculty members, who have recently started their roles at MIT, conduct research across ... a deep commitment to research excellence and a passion for teaching and mentorship.” Faculty with ... Career Development Professor. Her research focuses on sustainable aerospace technology driven by a deep ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-2024-25Mo Mirvakili
accurate and affordable solutions for researchers,” Mirvakili says. “This vision extends beyond academia to ... prolific lab, he saw researchers struggling to control temperatures at the microscale for a device that was ... encapsulating drugs. Mirvakili realized the researchers were ultimately struggling with the same set of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mo-mirvakiliBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
researchers found that bacteria can affect a bubble’s longevity: A bacteria-covered bubble floating at the ... A single droplet, the researchers estimate, can carry up to thousands of microorganisms, and each bubble ... can emit hundreds of droplets. MIT-Bacteria-Bubbles-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airEllen Roche and Justin Solomon named Edgerton Award winners
The purpose of the award is to recognize exceptional distinction in teaching, in research, and in ... whose research is the future of medicine and therapeutics,” says Elazer Edelman, the Edward J. Poitras ... as a finalist in scientific achievement for the Nature Research Inspiring Women in Science Awards in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ellen-roche-and-justin-solomon-named-edgerton-award-winnersMIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger
curiosity sparked an initial experiment by Cohen’s research group, which leads the department’s egg drop ... courtesy of the researchers. What began as casual inquiry evolved into a research project. To rigorously ... investigate the strength of both egg orientations, the researchers conducted two types of experiments: static ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-finding-sideways-strongerSix from MIT awarded 2023 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
University’s School of Medicine, where he researches immunity to infectious diseases. He intends to lead ... a scientific career not only contributing to groundbreaking academic research, but also ensuring that the ... fruits of this research have their maximal benefit to society through public policy, outreach, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-awarded-2023-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansMechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award
Wright and Professor Amos Winter as they travel to India gathering research on how to design a low-cost ... Interested in highlighting the important work done in Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research ... (GEAR) Lab, Freidah and his colleagues in the media team at MechE honed in on the research PhD student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-film-water-life-wins-new-england-emmy-awardAccelerating particle size distribution estimation
are typically used: a sample is either imaged and individual particles are counted, or researchers use ... increased waste, making the latter a more attractive option. In recent years, MIT engineers and researchers ... researcher at Tsinghua University. “By making progress in analyzing scattered light, we also invented ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-particle-size-distribution-estimationBurning things to make things
of mechanical engineering, is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion ... research in battery deactivation and energy system analysis with Associate Professor Sili Deng. Credit: ... Utilization and associate professor of mechanical engineering, is leading research to drive the transition from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/burning-things-make-thingsMicrochip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
retaining precision. The paper’s senior author, MIT professor Scott Manalis, and other researchers have been ... developing SMRs for nearly a decade. In the new study, the researchers used the device to observe the ... of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. The paper’s lead authors are Nathan Cermak, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-enables-fast-precise-measurement-single-cell-growthStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
MIT-Transpararent-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its ... researchers fabricated flexible films made from gallium arsenide, gallium nitride, and lithium fluoride ... produce in functional devices. The new technique, researchers say, provides a cost-effective method to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materialsFrom microfluidics to metastasis
A mouse, on the other hand, only has about 1.5 milliliters of blood in total. If researchers want to study ... researchers at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, it is now possible to collect CTCs from ... consists of engineers, the opportunity to participate in this type of research has been incredibly exciting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-metastasisStudents present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact
summarizing research are tacked onto endless rows of bulletin boards. Leaders in any given field meander ... through the posters, asking presenters questions about their work on the spot. For junior researchers ... Visiting doctoral student Matteo Alberghini, right, presents his research to an attendee at the 2019 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-mechanical-engineering-projects-have-global-impactIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
a light-sensitive hydrogel that the researchers designed. Incorporating this material into medical devices could ... they are no longer needed or are not functioning properly, the researchers say. “We are developing ... helping them to break down in the body. Image: Ritu Raman In a study in pigs, the researchers showed that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightEngineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics
covered in an intermediate layer of graphene. Once the researchers grow a semiconducting film, they can ... journal Nature, the researchers demonstrate that they can use remote epitaxy to produce freestanding films ... materials, to produce flexible, multifunctional electronic devices. The researchers expect that the process ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-mix-and-match-materials-make-new-stretchy-electronicsNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
pig intestinal tissue grown in the lab, the researchers can test thousands of different versions of ... a drug in just hours. In a paper appearing today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers used ... Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, are the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentA robot that finds lost items
figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... the researchers developed relies on RFID tags, which are cheap, battery-less tags that can be stuck to ... Signal Kinetics group in the MIT Media Lab. Co-authors include research assistant Tara Boroushaki, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
dessicant. The researchers found they could infuse the hydrogel with more salt than was possible in previous ... continuously absorb vapor, that could then be condensed into drinking water. The researchers also envision that ... Research Lab at MIT. “But now we are exploring widely different problems like how to make air conditioning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-air