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Innovations in water accessibility

that it was too late to pivot from a career path in medical devices to one in water research, she ... focus. “Professor Seering asked, ‘Are you having fun exploring water research?’ and I said ‘Yes.’ To ... accessibility, Klise sought a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) project on water research. She ...

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Engineers turn the body’s goo into new glue

fibers (blue strand) from mucin and mussel-inspired polymers, MIT researchers have created a new glue ... researchers Every surface in our bodies not covered in skin is lined with a protective layer of mucus ... the buildup of bacteria while keeping its sticky hold, even on wet surfaces. The researchers envision ...

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A. Michael West

An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT ... to participate in the  MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP). The program identifies talented ...

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Cultivating confidence and craft across disciplines

support. They show that transformative academic guidance is not only about solving research problems, but ... spaces where students are not only empowered to grow as researchers, but affirmed as individuals. Their ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Research Group ...

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School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

labs, and centers. With research and teaching activities ranging from the development of robotics and ... of research efforts around the Institute. “I am delighted to welcome our wonderful new faculty,” says ... Engineering and Computer Science. “Their impact as talented educators, researchers, collaborators, and mentors ...

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Finding Joy in Making, and the Making of #HellaJuneteenth

in visual arts. His career so far, in his words, “has been a gumbo mix of technology startups and big ...

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New Faculty

at MIT. Dr. Kolpak’s research employs atomic and electronic structure modeling techniques such as ... interfacial phenomena. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature and includes collaborations with ...

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New particle-sorting method breaks speed records

Researchers compare the processing of biological fluid samples with searching for a needle in ... impossible. But the research team found ways of eliminating this turbulence and even focusing the flow, ... researchers showed that by adjusting the flow properties of the fluid sample, they could concentrate all of ...

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Solving a mystery of thermoelectrics

researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... including research to understand a different class called phase-change materials. These are being studied as ... phase-change research and those doing thermoelectric research,” Lee says. Interdisciplinary meetings at MIT ...

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How to create selective holes in graphene

Researchers have devised a way of making tiny holes of controllable size in sheets of graphene, ... researchers at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in Saudi Arabia succeeded in creating subnanoscale ... pores, as a filter in desalination has been proposed and analyzed by other MIT researchers. The new work, ...

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How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light

A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... for later use, the researchers say. In this case, adding the extra step improves performance, because ... professor Marin Soljačić, principal research scientist Ivan Celanović, and three others. A conventional ...

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