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Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... years ago, Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, began to ... more than half of their crops. Kripa Varanasi, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, is working ...

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Meet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia

engineering projects, with Maria Yang, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT ... Since 2012, a handful of Saudi Arabia’s top scientists and engineers have arrived on MIT’s campus ... research at MIT. Each fellow is paired with an MIT faculty for a research project and exposed to a number ...

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The environmental toll of disposable masks

a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University. Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Anne Trafton | MIT ... That toll could be dramatically cut by adopting reusable masks, according to a new study from MIT that ... greatest cost savings, but also significant reduction in waste,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ...

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Making RNA vaccines easier to swallow

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... pigs. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT ... Monday, January 31, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professors Giovanni ...

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On the cutting edge

a passion for engineering, the young Denton, Texas, native made it a goal to study engineering at MIT. In ... Winter Olympics, for short-track speedskating.   MIT-Student-Malone-1024.jpg “Before I ever wanted to be ... Malone says. The MIT senior studies mechanical engineering and hopes to draw from both his education and ...

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3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the tide of global warming

need to be made in order to stem the rise of global warming. MIT News spoke with Asegun Henry, the lead ... author and the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical ... a species may not survive Mother Earth’s clapback. Monday, August 10, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...

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An Eye for Design

freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which people formulate ideas ... products’ success. MIT-maria-yang 1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark “People’s strategies are so fascinating,” ...

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Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

Lining Yao as part of MIT’s Tangible Media group, led by Hiroshi Ishii, the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor ... A team of MIT researchers has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open ... are published today in Science Advances. MIT-Sweat-Wearables-01-1024.jpg This breathable workout suit ...

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Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor

Alexander I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering; and Gang Chen, head of MIT’s Department of ... coverings trap the heat that the devices produce. Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a polymer ... 10 times as much heat as most commercially used polymers. MIT-Polymer-Conductor.JPG Engineers at MIT ...

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Instrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water

transporting them to distant laboratories for analysis. To simplify the monitoring process, MIT researchers ... easily dropped in the mail and shipped to a laboratory for further analysis. MIT ... -Dry-Testing-01-1024.jpg MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of ...

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Homing in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells

Tiihonen The findings appear in the journal Matter, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shijing Sun, MIT professors ... used for virtually all commercial solar panels. Now, an international interdisciplinary team led by MIT ... MIT-Better-Perovskite-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a new way to test long-lasting perovskite formulations that could be ...

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Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity

MIT-Obesity-Treatment-01-PRESS_0.gif MIT engineers have now come up with a new way to take advantage of that phenomenon, using an ... control their appetite, it could be taken before each meal,” says Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20, a former MIT ... graduate student and postdoc who is now an assistant professor of bioengineering at Harvard University. ...

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3-D Printing 101

As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with ... Office Culture Education Maker ajhart@mit.edu Horizontal Professor John Hart teaches students of new ... the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor in Contemporary Technology and Mechanical ...

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New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy

Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. MIT-Electric-Therapy_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ... Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology The device, about the size of a U.S. dollar coin, is designed ...

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A new way to provide cooling without power

MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... metal suspended above the device blocks the sun’s direct rays. MIT-Radiative-Cooling_1024.jpg Two ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ...

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Technique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials

Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; Thibaut Divoux of ... yank on it, the Silly Putty will snap like a brittle, solid bar. MIT-Gel-Chirps-01_1024.jpg High ... MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ...

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This touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli

tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ... include Huifeng Du and Liu Wang at MIT, along with professor Chuanfei Guo’s group at the Southern ... August 4, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Maker Horizontal A team of engineers led by Professor ...

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High-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet

affiliate at MIT and professor at the University of Twente. “With these experiments, we are getting all this ... his collaborators, including Ian Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT ... such as vaccines through skin without using needles. MIT-Bubble-Jet-1024.jpg New study on water jets ...

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Drug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... include MIT’s David H. Koch Institute Professor Robert Langer, Brian Jensen Mette Poulsen, Brian ... injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ...

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Engineers develop nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier

Sciences. Paula Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and ... chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that surround the brain. A team of MIT researchers is now ... Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, an ...

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