a graduate student in Pentelute lab. Other authors include Klavs Jensen, head of MIT Department of Chemical engineering,
Chemistry graduate students Surin Mong and Alexander Vinogradov are lead authors of that paper along with Simon. The researchers have patented the technology,
. Lai Fellowship, an Astrazeneca Distinguished Graduate student Fellowship, the National Institute of General Medical sciences, and the National institutes of health M
the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical engineering and leader of the MIT research team. hey repair themselves, theye environmentally stable outside,
a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in the research. he authors nicely show that self-assembling nanoparticles can be used to enhance the photosynthetic capacity of plants,
We re excited about soft robots for a variety of reasons says Daniela Rus a professor of computer science
Escape velocitythe robotic fish was built by Andrew Marchese a graduate student in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering
Video Melanie Gonick All of our algorithms and control theory are designed pretty much with the idea that we ve got rigid systems with defined joints says Barry Trimmer a biology professor at Tufts University who specializes in biomimetic soft robots.
the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research in MIT Department of biology. his study couldn have been done five to 10 years ago.
a professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical school and Massachusetts General Hospital. ur knowledge about the abundance of extracellular matrix proteins in tumors has been limited.
Coming full circle Hynes now teaches at MIT helping to walk students through the process of launching alternative-energy startups.
The technology developed by MIT professor and Howard hughes medical institute investigator Sangeeta Bhatia relies on nanoparticles that interact with tumor proteins called proteases each
When we invented this new class of synthetic biomarker we used a highly specialized instrument to do the analysis says Bhatia the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical engineering and Computer science.
The paper s lead authors are graduate student Andrew Warren postdoc Gabriel Kwong and former postdoc David wood.
The research was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship a Mazumdar-Shaw International Oncology Fellowship the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National institutes of health
and there is no preferential accumulation Rusconi says. The new findings could also be important for studies of microbial marine ecosystems by affecting how bacteria move in search of nutrients
Howard A. Stone a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this research calls this a very interesting paper
the better, says Darrell Irvine, a professor of biological engineering and of materials science and engineering, and the senior author of the paper.
a professor of dermatology at University Hospital Zurich who was not part of the research team. oth the effect on the stimulated immune responses
There students and monks will be able to learn from materials such as lectures on MIT s Opencourseware (with added Tibetan subtitles.
This project is led by now a team of Tibetan high school students mentored by volunteers and is advanced in an stage of development.
The program links MIT teachers and mentors to Tibetan community programs through Skype supplemented by regular travel by Dalai lama Center staff alumni and students who among other work teach weeklong leadership
classes to groups of Tibetan students and monks. Some team members will travel to India this spring to work on ongoing projects including a rainwater harvesting system
The education is a two-way street Zaccagnini says with the MIT students and alumni bringing their technological knowledge
a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of California at Irvine. obotic measurements will help us identify promising treatments with smaller numbers of patients
the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical engineering and corresponding author on the new paper. r you could imagine a smart pillow,
The source of Kspliceksplice s roots trace back to 2006 when Arnold was charged with implementing a security update for MIT s Student Information Processing Board that arrived on a weekday.
Under the tutelage of Frans Kaashoek the Charles A. Piper Professor of Computer science and Engineering Arnold started developing Ksplice for his graduate thesis
who won the 2007 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work (providing $30, 000 that further funded APA prototyping).
which challenges student teams to invent technologies based on military requests. Original specifications for the invention called for a device that weighed less than 25 pounds
says Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a principal investigator of the study,
along with Katherine Baicker, a professor at the Harvard School of Public health. The study, which is being published today in the journal Science,
Amitabh Chandra, an economist and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who has read the paper, praises the study as xemplary social science,
which people will actually remember a face says lead author Aditya Khosla a graduate student in the Computer Vision group within CSAIL.
Torralba an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and graduate student Wilma Bainbridge. Conversely it could also be used to make faces appear less memorable
Trancik is joined on the paper by three MIT graduate students: Michael Chang and Christina Karapataki of the Engineering Systems Division and Leah Stokes of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. policy that focused on controlling carbon emissions is a different kind of policy than one that focused
Count the photonsas Ahmed Kirmani a graduate student in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science and lead author on the new paper explains the very idea of forming an image with only a single photon detected at each pixel location is counterintuitive.
and lead to more detected photons and more charge accumulation. In a conventional lidar system the laser fires pulses of light toward a sequence of discrete positions
Researchers in the Optical and Quantum Communications Group which is led by Jeffrey Shapiro the Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical engineering
which is also impressive says John Howell a professor of physics at the University of Rochester.
a graduate student at MIT. sing the current state of the art, such as the new Kinect, you cannot capture translucent objects in 3-D,
a graduate student in the Media Lab. eople with shaky hands tend to take blurry photographs with their cellphones
says Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT and senior author of the study,
Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this work,
and an MK2 inhibitor could be very effective says Michael Yaffe the David H. Koch Professor in Science
and potentially useful approach for others to use says Titia de Lange a professor of cell biology
a professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute who was involved not in this research,
Patrick Doyle, the Singapore Research Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT, is the senior author of the paper.
says Patrick Tabeling, a professor at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris,
Senior authors of the new paper are Stephen Lippard the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Shana
Kelley a professor of biochemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Toronto. Lead authors are Simon Wisnovsky who received his Phd from the University of Toronto and MIT alumnus Justin Wilson Phd 13.
The new targeted molecule is designed an elegantly platinum complex says Paul Dyson a professor of chemistry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne who was not part of the research team.
The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute the Canadian Institute of Health and a David H. Koch Graduate Fellowship s
Victor Galitski, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland who was involved not in this research,
the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT. hat pretty much a description of what the ankle is.
Eric Perreault, a professor of biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University, says the group findings present the first insight into how muscle activation alters the ankle mechanical properties over its normal range of motion,
Stephen Shum a graduate student in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science and lead author on the new paper found that a 100-variable i-vector a 100-dimension approximation of the 120000-dimension space was an adequate
Ten years ago MIT researchers led by Susumu Tonegawa the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience created mice lacking the gene for calcineurin in the forebrain;
and colleagues at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at MIT s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory recorded the electrical activity of individual neurons in the hippocampus of these knockout mice
Other authors are Heydar Davoudi and Matthew Wilson the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and a member of the Picower Institute.
says Frans Kaashoek, the Charles A. Piper Professor in the Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science (EECS).
a graduate student in EECS and first author on the new paper, is the assumption that
and identified every undefined behavior that he and his coauthors Kaashoek and his fellow EECS professors Nickolai Zeldovich and Armando Solar-Lezama imagined that a programmer might ever inadvertently invoke.
Such a system could be used to monitor patients who are at high risk for blood clots says Sangeeta Bhatia senior author of the paper and the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical engineering and Computer science.
Lead authors of the paper are Kevin Lin a graduate student in chemical engineering and Gabriel Kwong a postdoc in IMES.
Other authors are Andrew Warren a graduate student in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and former HST postdoc David wood.
and CEO David Lucchino MBA 6 is developing a novel biomaterial for implanted medical devices that permanently barricades these troublesome microbes from the device surface.
co-authored by Loose, Lucchino, MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, and other researchers. Based on Loose work at MIT,
a chemical engineering Phd student, was charged with developing medical devices that could permanently be inserted in the body without triggering an immune response in other words,
In vitro, the modified catheters on both their external and internal surfaces saw a 98 percent reduction in the accumulation of platelets and three types of white blood cells.
In vivo, the modified catheters showed a 99 percent reduction in thrombus accumulation, 50 percent less inflammation,
Today, the two entrepreneurs continue to mentor students and give talks at MIT and Harvard Business school, sharing startup advice,
The results were published in the journal Physical Review Letters in a paper by graduate student Guoqiang Xu
and professor of materials science and engineering Michael Demkowicz. e had to go back and check, Demkowicz says, when nstead of extending,
Metal fatigue, for example which can result from an accumulation of nanoscale cracks over time s probably the most common failure modefor structural metals in general
William Gerberich, a professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota who was involved not in this research,
To improve robots ability to gauge object orientation Jared Glover a graduate student in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering
when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus,
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of CSAIL. e just needed a creative insight
Other lead authors of the paper are former MIT postdoc Narahara Chari Dingari and UTA graduate students Bipin Joshi and Nelson Cardenas.
Having witnessed this struggle firsthand on a trip through the Atlas Mountains, MIT Supply Chain Management graduate student Zyad El Jebbari,
A lack of literacy provides a challenging barrier to access the modern distribution channels of today fast-growing market demand for handmade goods. Current models for exporting
Dao and colleagues, including Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie mellon University, former dean of MIT School of engineering,
and Vannevar bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus, have developed a tiny microfluidic device that can analyze the behavior of blood from sickle cell disease patients.
a professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineering at Caltech who was involved not in this study. The researchers have filed a patent on the device to further its development for diagnostic use,
To do that, her team made use of novel fiber-fabrication technology pioneered by MIT professor of materials science
John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering and of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this research
a principle investigator at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory who previously developed novel techniques for studying brain circuitry in addiction
For the study, Tye and her graduate student Edward Nieh focused on the connections between the VTA and the lateral hypothalamus (LH),
Next, Nieh worked with an MD/Phd student in Tye's lab, Stephen Allsop, to modify mice
and private sources, including Nieh NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the Integrative Neuronal Systems Fellowship, and the Training program in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
Kara N. Presbrey, Christopher A. Leppla, Romy Wichmann, Rachael Neve, and Craig P. Wildes, all members of the Picower Institute, also contributed to this work a
#New findings reveal genetic brain disorders converge at the synapse Picower Institute for Learning and Memory January 12,
the Picower Professor of Neuroscience in MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, showed that two very different genetic causes of autism
The research was performed by postdoc and lead author Di Tian, graduate student Laura Stoppel, and research scientist Arnold Heynen, in collaboration with scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Roche pharmaceuticals.
Participating in the $100k with help from fellow students in engineering and in the MIT Sloan School of management
And over the years, D-Lab students have traveled frequently to Tanzania to help with product development,
But GCS is now furthering development on a motorized multicrop thresher eveloped by a team of students that the Bill
In 2012, Avila and two MIT students also fixed issues with the threads on the sheller drive shaft:
The students discovered the issue and used longer bolts with springs to secure the sheller so when the maize jammed,
says Essess cofounder Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical engineering,
Then, in 2011, Field Intelligence Lab student Long Phan Phd 2 made key innovations to the rig that allowed low-cost cameras (about $1,
Elazer Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and a member of IMES, is also a senior author of the paper.
The paper lead authors are graduate student Nuria Oliva and former graduate student Maria Carcole. Exploring material properties Artzi
The work is authored co by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas Fang and graduate student Anshuman Kumar
attracting over 10,000 young students to the science booths over the course of three days.
Nearby, J. Kim Vandiver, mechanical engineering professor and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, helped his wife, Kathy Vandiver, community outreach education and engagement director at the Center for Environmental Health Sciences
because students can assemble and disassemble such objects and clearly understand how the various brightly colored components interact.
and MIT students to improve their CAD skills and learn to perfect 3-D printing.
and others adopt the use of active learning in EOD training. Instead of the traditional, default lecture style,
students were expected to disassemble and work with the 3-D printed models to learn by discovery how different bombs
who collaborated closely with Institute Professor Harold ocedgerton in the 1970s, founded the Edgerton Center in 1992 as a legacy to Edgerton belief in the power of earning by doing.
He is a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and also served as a lieutenant in the U s army Corps of Engineers in Vietnam in 1970-1971.
Vandiver visited one of his graduate students working on an EOD project in Cambodia. It was on this visit that he met with Tan
and engaged with him in a conversation about how to involve SUTD and MIT students in meaningful, real projects.
This brainstorming session produced the idea to engage student interns in the computer-aided design of training objects.
SUTD and MIT student interns travel to Cambodia to help with design and production in coordination with John Wright, the project engineer at Golden West headquarters in Cambodia.
Tan hopes the festival will help Cambodian students see that science and engineering education can make it possible for them to make important contributions to their home and country.
Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, says the ability to tune friction would be helpful in developing nanomachines tiny robots built from components the size of single molecules.
along with graduate students Alexei Bylinskii and Dorian Gangloff, publish their results today in the journal Science.
a professor of physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany, sees the results as a lear breakthroughin gaining insight into therwise inaccessible fundamental physics.
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. e need to regulate the input to extract the maximum power,
the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical engineering, use an inductor, which is a wire wound into a coil.
says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a cofounder of 24m (and previously a cofounder of battery company A123).
and colleagues including W. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials science and engineering. In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
the Power Sources paper was authored co by graduate student Brandon Hopkins, mechanical engineering professor Alexander Slocum, and Kyle Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
says Bounce Imaging CEO Francisco Aguilar MBA 2, who invented the device, called the Explorer.
Classmate and U s army veteran David Young MBA 2 joined the project early to provide a perspective of an end-user. he VMS steered us right in many ways,
a computer scientist who had founded co a few tech startups including Picturetel, directly out of graduate school, with the late MIT professor David Staelin before coming to VMS as a mentor in 2007.
Among other things, Bernstein says the VMS mentors helped Bounce Imaging navigate, for roughly two years,
as a student at both MIT Sloan and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard university.
Invented by Microchips Biotech cofounders Michael Cima, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering, and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, the microchips consist of hundreds of pinhead-sized reservoirs,
each capped with a metal membrane, that store tiny doses of therapeutics or chemicals. An electric current delivered by the device removes the membrane,
and then-graduate student John Santini Phd 9 co-founded Microchips, and invented a prototype for their microchip that was described in a paper published that year in Nature.
The concept is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied materials and Interfaces by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Ian W. Hunter, doctoral student Seyed M. Mirvakili,
says Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics in MIT Department of Mechanical engineering, ut it may not be needed for very long.
and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,
The team also included Phd student Mehr Negar Mirvakili and professors Peter Englezos and John Madden, all from the University of British columbia s
says Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane('72) Professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT. One approach calls for using water rather than natural gas as the source of the hydrogen molecules needed for key chemical reactions in the refining process.
Ghoniem and William Green, the Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT, have been working to close gaps in the fundamental knowledge about the chemistry involved as SCW
the two lead authors, are former postdocs in the laboratory of Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
Other cofounders and co-inventors are Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical engineering, now chair of CEI technical advisory board;
which brings together MIT students from across disciplines to evaluate the commercial feasibility of new technologies.
where entrepreneurial engineering students are guided through the startup process with group discussions and talks from seasoned entrepreneurs.
and other early startup challenges. t a great class for a student who has an idea,
The pair of keen high-school students have partnered with Virgin Media to develop the device and theye just announced that the Kipstr is ready for trials.
This is the first time that graphene has been made magnetic this way said Jing Shi a professor of physics
Ziang Zhang, a Rice graduate student and the paper's lead author. Yakobson, Zhang and Rice postdoctoral researcher Alex Kutana used density functional theory, a computational method to analyze the energetic input of every atom in a model system,
new tool for medical imaging,"says Prasad, also a SUNY Distinguished Professor of chemistry, physics, medicine and electrical engineering at UB."
Led by materials science Associate professor Michael Arnold and Professor Padma Gopalan, the team has reported the highest-performing carbon nanotube transistors ever demonstrated.
In a paper published recently in the journal ACS Nano, Arnold, Gopalan and their students reported transistors with an on-off ratio that's 1
Macrophages accumulation in the arterial wall under atherogenic conditions such as high cholesterol triglycerides oxidative stress#are converted into lipids or laden foam cells
Macrophage foam cells accumulation in the arterial wall are a key cell type in the development of atherosclerosis
Here researchers have discovered for the first time that the toxicity of silicon dioxide nanoparticles has a significant and substantial effect on the accumulation of triglycerides in the macrophages at all exposure concentrations analyzed
Professor Zhiyong Fan and his group from Hong kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reported novel nanobowl optical concentrator fabricated on low-cost aluminum foil
The novel nanobowl optical concentrator developed by Professor Zhiyong Fan can largely enhance the optical absorption in the active layer of organic solar cell
The development of the novel nanobowl optical concentrator and its application on OPV were a collaborative effort involving Professors in Department of chemistry of HKUST including Professor Shihe Yang
and Professor He (Henry) Yan who are working on cutting-edge researches about organic photovoltaics. The research project was supported by General Research Funds from Hong kong Research Grants Council and Hong kong Innovation Technology Commission.
The UCD team led by Conway Fellows Professor Gil Lee in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor Walter Kolch in Systems Biology Ireland synthesised nanorods with a long iron segment coated with polyethylene glycol
and a short gold tip coated with single layer of the protein heregulin (HRG). HRG is a growth factor that binds to
In the recent past a team of Princeton professors including Mcalpine created a bionic ear out of living cells with an embedded antenna that could receive radio signals.
and biological materials said Kong a graduate student in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Kong the lead author of the Oct 31 article describing the current work in the journal Nano Letters said that the contact lens project on the other hand involved the printing of active electronics using diverse materials.
To solve these interdisciplinary challenges the researchers collaborated with Ian Tamargo who graduated this year with a bachelor's degree in chemistry;
or other applications says Xu Zhang a Ph d. student in Chang's lab and lead author of the paper.
All conclusions made based on the X-ray studies were confirmed further using atomic-resolution microscopy in the group of Professor Robert Klie of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A paper describing this discovery by a research team led by John V. Badding a professor of chemistry at Penn State was published in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Nature Materials.
James Caruthers Purdue's Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Professor of Chemical engineering; Jeanmarie Nedelec a researcher from Clermont Universit in France;
Scientists create multifunctional nanotubes using nontoxic materials A doctoral student in materials science at Technische Universitat Darmstadt is making multifunctional nanotubes of goldith the help of Vitamin c and other harmless substances.
The doctoral student in the research group of Professor Wolfgang Ensinger in the Department of Material Analysis is working on making nanotubes of gold.
"says the TU professor, combining the two mottos:""Green meets Nano meets Life
#Uniform nanowire arrays for science and manufacturing Defect-free nanowires with diameters in the range of 100 nanometers (nm) hold significant promise for numerous in demand applications including printable
According to TAU doctoral student and research team member Dr. Lilach Bareket there are already medical devices that attempt to treat visual impairment by sending sensory signals to the brain.
Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo, a Phd student and corresponding author of this paper, said: When you know how it should work it is a very simple setup.
A research team headed by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials science and engineering at KAIST provides an easier methodology to realize high performance flexible electronics by using the Inorganic-based Laser Lift off (ILLO.
Professor Lee said By selecting an optimized set of inorganic exfoliation layer and substrate a nanoscale process at a high temperature of over 1000c can be utilized for high performance flexible electronics.
and protein diagnostic devices into every single doctor's office said Stuart Lindsay an ASU physics professor and director of Biodesign's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics.
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