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Multimillion-dollar grant to MIT funds research into acute and chronic Lyme disease
Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, will combine four ... disease, led by Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT ... gift to the MIT School of Engineering to fund a two-year research project examining a physiomimetic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multimillion-dollar-grant-mit-funds-research-acute-and-chronic-lyme-diseaseMechanical engineer-led startups offer healthcare solutions
Traverso, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Traverso is no stranger to startups. He has ... co-founded seven of them. An MD-PhD, Traverso is both an assistant professor at MIT and a physician at ... solutions all the more pressing. “There were a number of startups from MIT that addressed problems related ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineer-led-startups-offer-healthcare-solutionsNew control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
efficiently. In MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Laboratory for ... objects. Contact-Aware_1024.jpg MIT researchers are teaching robots to understand their own limits while ... precision) without sacrificing safety or embodied intelligence,” says lead senior author and MIT Assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-control-system-teaches-soft-robots-art-staying-safeArtificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
author Ritu Raman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT. “Such modularity ... professors Martin Culpepper and Xuanhe Zhao. Muscle’s gains Raman and her colleagues at MIT are at the ... MIT-ArtificialTendons-01-press_1024.jpg Researchers have developed artificial tendons for muscle-powered robots. They attached the rubber ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-tendons-give-muscle-powered-robots-boostMIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day
Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president, ... members of the MIT community gathered to welcome Kornbluth with an academic symposium exploring the theme ... “Where Big Ideas Come From — and Why They Matter.” Held at MIT’s Samberg Conference Center and streamed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-tackle-big-ideas-symposium-kicking-inauguration-dayCelebrating great mentorship for graduate students
“When we talk about our experiences as graduate students at MIT, my colleagues and I tend to use ... ahmed-ghoneim-wesley-harris-committed-to-caring-mit-1024.jpg Honorees Ahmed Ghoniem (left) and Wesley Harris enjoy the Committed to Caring celebration on April ... 11. Photo: Joseph Lee The conversation about challenges and stresses at MIT, though, is arguably ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-great-mentorship-graduate-studentsMIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards
Co-founders Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and postdocs Maher Damak PhD ’18 ... MIT_Infininte_Cooling_Awards_1024.jpg The Infinite Cooling team accepts the $100K Diamond Winner Award at the MassChallenge Awards on ... Oct. 17 in Boston. Left to right: co-founder Associate Professor Kripa Varnasi, co-founder Maher Damak, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinoff-takes-top-honor-masschallenge-awards“Each of us holds a piece of the solution”
conspiracies, developed by David Rand, the Erwin H. Schell Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ceach-us-holds-piece-solution%E2%80%9DSarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
curiosity, and civic-mindedness that together represent MIT at its very best,” says Professor Will Broadhead, ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sarah-tress-wins-2019-rhodes-scholarshipMechE students win 2017 Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes honoring promising collegiate inventors around the country.
The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the winners of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize after ... a nationwide search for the most inventive college students. The Lemelson-MIT Program awarded $115,000 in ... universities across the country. Olesnavage_1024.jpg Katy Olesnavage of MIT is a $15,000 Lemelson-MIT “Cure ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-students-win-2017-lemelson-mit-student-prizes-honoring-promising-collegiateEngineering art
MIT-Stephanie-chou-kinetic-sculpture-Mess-of-Gold 1024_0.jpg Stephanie Chou ’19 stands with her kinetic art sculpture, "Mess of Gold." ... sculpture to encourage members of the MIT community to express themselves and find support in challenging ... Hunter, an MIT student, passed away after a brief illness in 2017. Dealing with her friend’s passing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-artAsegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... that has not been without hurdles, much like Henry’s own path to MIT. In 2020, he was granted a faculty ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunMicrochip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
respond to drugs,” MIT professor Scott Manalis says. Illustration by Christine Daniloff/MIT The technique, ... retaining precision. The paper’s senior author, MIT professor Scott Manalis, and other researchers have been ... Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-enables-fast-precise-measurement-single-cell-growthMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT. The new contraceptive is contained ... a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Entrepreneurship International Horizontal MIT engineers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT, Portal Instruments developed a jet-injection device that ... Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT, the startup developed ... anxiety associated with needles, some patients stop adhering to these treatments. MIT spinout Portal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealA graphene roll-out
first author Piran Kidambi, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at Vanderbilt ... who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-out