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Daniel Hastings and Maria Yang appointed associate deans of engineering
Professors Daniel Hastings and Maria Yang have been named associate deans of MIT’s School of ... Engineering. Their new roles took effect August 1. Hastings is the Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor of ... all levels across the school. Yang is the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering, faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/daniel-hastings-and-maria-yang-appointed-associate-deans-engineeringJ-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Professor, says that MIT faculty continue to devise ... managed by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, is in its second year. Like direct ... “Commercializing effective technologies with sound business models is one of MIT’s most effective mechanisms to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsAging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
expertise to join the field, MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) this month awarded five seed grants after ... a competition among labs across the Institute. Founded in 2015 by nine MIT faculty members, the ABI promotes ... treatment options,” says ABI director and co-founder Li-Huei Tsai, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-awards-fund-five-new-ideas-study-fight-neurodegenerationCultivators of Research
in Maria Yang. Professors Maria Yang and Kenneth Oye are two of the 2023-25 Committed to Caring ... participating in their research journey from the beginning to end. For MIT graduate students, the Committed to ... Gretchen Ertl Maria Yang: Inclusion and continual fostering Professor Maria Yang is the deputy dean of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cultivators-researchJ-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
Zegher, the Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor in the operations management program at the MIT ... products that could have nourished a number of people. Fadel Adib, an assistant professor at the MIT Media ... Adib, assistant professor, MIT Media Lab Designing Supply Chain Platforms for Smallholders in Indonesia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-seven-new-seed-grantsStrong mentorship through great decision-making
Chemical Engineering and the David H. Koch (1962) Professor in Engineering at MIT. The Hammond Research ... experience that I have ever had with an MIT professor.” In addition to promoting a healthy work/life balance ... and transformative.” C2C invites graduate students from across MIT’s campus to nominate professors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strong-mentorship-through-great-decision-makingBaran Mensah: Savoring college life in a new country
MIT senior Baran Mensah recalls taking apart his toys as a child, curious to see how every piece ... wasn’t particularly familiar with the culture of MIT while growing up in Ghana. But for the last four ... significant leadership roles in the Chocolate City living group, he has performed with Sakata Afrique, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/baran-mensah-savoring-college-life-new-country3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?
— and shape our understanding of the world. SENSE.nano is an MIT.nano Center of Excellence, with a focus ... on Sept. 30 at MIT, will dive deep into the impact of sensors on two topics: sensing for augmented ... and virtual reality (AR/VR) and sensing for advanced manufacturing. MIT Principal Research Scientist ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-why-sensing-why-now-what-nextFormer MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72
Internet in pursuit of MIT’s mission. That committee, led by Professor Dick K. P. Yue, made a revolutionary ... Engineering and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering. Vest fostered MIT’s international engagement ... Former MIT president Charles M. Vest — a tireless advocate for research and science, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/former-mit-president-charles-m-vest-dies-72Strengthening America’s manufacturing base
institute for high school students. Professor Vladimir Bulovic guided her through MIT.nano and described ... MIT’s fabrication and characterization capabilities. She also visited Professor Zack Cordero’s lab in ... of Defense’s chief technology officer. In a recent talk at MIT, she spoke about the DoD’s initiatives ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strengthening-america%E2%80%99s-manufacturing-baseA glimpse inside Intel
Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the MIT Computer Science and ... Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Vladimir Bulović, director of MIT.nano and the Fariborz Maseeh Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glimpse-inside-intelClimate and sustainability classes expand at MIT
science, policy, and economics. Ron Rivest, MIT Institute Professor of Computer Science, was one of the ... education. “My first semester at MIT, I took Environment and History, co-taught by professors Susan Solomon ... In fall 2019, a new class, 6.S898/12.S992 (Climate Change Seminar), arrived at MIT. It was, at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climate-and-sustainability-classes-expand-mitMIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
delivered MIT’s 2024 Commencement address. Cynthia Breazeal SM ’93, ScD ’00 is a professor of media arts ... Six current MIT affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of the ... current faculty, research staff, and MIT Corporation members. Top row (l-r): Noubar Afeyan, Cynthia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellowsLetter from Department Head Mary C. Boyce
Ford Professor of Engineering Dear Friends, MIT is a recognized leader in cutting-edge research whose ... designers from the Rhode Island School of Design and management students from MIT’s Sloan School of ... innovative, life-changing products to the world’s customers. My own MIT journey began when I came here as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-mary-c-boyceThe tenured engineers of 2017
MIT. “This year’s newly tenured faculty in the School of Engineering are remarkable,” said Ian A. ... associate professors are: Polina Anikeeva PhD ’09, the Class of 1942 Career Development Professor in the ... nervous system. Cullen Buie, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-2017Advancing the energy transition amidst global crises
Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. ... a problem to where it’s safer. Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, described ... power than CO 2 from the point of emission,” said Desirée L. Plata, MIT associate professor of civil and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-energy-transition-amidst-global-crises2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards honor MIT educators’ innovation and empathy
This June, 23 faculty and instructors from over a dozen departments, labs, and centers across MIT ... of Open Learning. Established in 2016 and co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the ... use of digital technologies in the context of MIT’s in-person, on-campus classes. But in the last two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2021-teaching-digital-technology-awards-honor-mit-educators%E2%80%99-innovation-and-empathyMIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition
In early January 2018, MIT professor John Lienhard opened an unexpected email. A panel of water ... Group at MIT focuses on developing technologies for clean water through a wide variety of approaches, ... at MIT, he leads an Institute-wide initiative to cultivate new water and food systems research across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-growing-global-leadership-water-achieves-industry-recognitionResearchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine
serious,” says Allan Myerson, a professor of practice in the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering and one ... Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and corresponding author of the study. The machine ... Horizontal A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program, including Professor George ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-novel-ai-based-estimator-manufacturing-medicine