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The Quest for Clean Water

MIT researchers design a solar-powered desalination device for rural India. The air was hot and ... Amos Winter, director of the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at the MIT Department of ... and PhD candidate Natasha Wright, a researcher in Winter’s GEAR Lab and a fellow of the MIT Tata ...

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Faculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak

performance of a particular material,” Kolpak says. The researchers also quantified the relationship between ... first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... and then they did a project using DFT that was related to some of their research. I had one student do ...

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Seeing solutions through, across continents

to Peru to research, test, and implement several technologies that promote health and sustainability ... from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). With the help of their advisor, D-Lab ...

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Cheetah III robot preps for a role as a first responder

down version of the Cheetah, called the Mini Cheetah, designed for robotics research and education. ... motivated more by potential applications than pure research. Kim and his team studied the requirements for ...

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Adventures in the Pappalardo Lab

says he plans to contact the research station there). The humor and personality of the people in the ... research within MechE. ...

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Karina Pikhart

Prospective-Grad Prospective-Students Prospective-Undergrad Research Education Graduate Undergraduate Alumni ...

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Helen Greiner

News-Media People Post-Doc Prospective-Students Prospective-Undergrad Research Education Graduate ...

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Government of India Taps MIT Expertise for Energy Solutions

with researchers from the MIT Energy Initiative and Tata Center for Technology and Design on Sept. ...

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3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers

others, it means working on the Electric Vehicle Team, or doing a UROP [Undergraduate Research ...

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MIT Students Win First Round of SpaceX Hyperloop Contest

air, required a major research thrust. “None of us knew anything about magnets, and there has ...

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J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants

enjoying a juicy hamburger cooked on the grill without fear of food poisoning, MIT researchers are ...

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A new approach to ultrafast light pulses

relatively slow response time. Now, researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and ...

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The race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships

of the next five years to support MIT’s Ocean Engineering Research and Development Fund. Wednesday, ...

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Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves

Sweeney, a research scientist at MIT D-Lab. “Drawing upon their strong theoretical foundation and ...

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Smart laser cutter system detects different materials

researchers Steven Acevedo Colon and Varnika Sinha in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and ...

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How much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?

Researchers across the globe are trying to design new manufacturing processes or new battery chemistries that ...

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Elliot Avila

Post-Doc Prospective-Grad Prospective-Students Prospective-Undergrad Research Education Graduate ...

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Study predicts heart cells’ response to dwindling oxygen

exactly how much oxygen to give, at what time point,” McDougal adds. This research was initially ...

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Meet the Oystamaran

| Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Maker Horizontal MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea ...

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Making hydropower plants more sustainable

technology in our transition to sustainable energy, a sentiment echoed by recent MIT research. “Hydro today ...

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