- “Life is short, so aim high” - MIT News
MIT professor Rafael Jaramillo seeks to develop new, more sustainable semiconductor materials His work could improve the economics and reduce the environmental footprint of semiconductors used in telecommunications, microelectronics, photovoltaics, and more
- Capturing cell growth in 3-D - MIT News
MIT spinout AIM Biotech has developed a microfluidics device that lets researchers co-culture multiple cell types in a 3-D hydrogel environment that mimics natural tissue, to more accurately study biological processes, such as cancer metastasis, and better capture how cancer cells react to chemotherapy agents
- How to aim a fire extinguisher - MIT News
The proper way to put out a fire is to aim the extinguisher at the base of the flames, not the top, and sweep side to side And, since practice makes perfect, students were invited to try out their technique on a live fire in East Campus courtyard last Friday for Campus Fire Safety Day
- Innovative projects aim to boost safety, efficiency of nuclear power . . .
Innovative projects aim to boost safety, efficiency of nuclear power Deborah Halber, News Office correspondent Publication Date September 20, 2006
- Math research team maps E8 - MIT News
The E 8 calculation is part of an ambitious project sponsored by AIM and the National Science Foundation known as the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations The goal of the Atlas project is to determine the unitary representations-roughly speaking, symmetries of a quantum mechanical system-of all the Lie groups (E 8 is the largest of the
- Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote . . .
MIT will also host AIM Photonics’ program in education and workforce development, which Kimerling will direct This will include developing educational materials — ranging from K-12 through continuing education — to prepare future employees for this emerging industry, including teaching on the design of integrated photonic devices
- Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective . . .
MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced six fellows for the spring 2024 semester to conduct research in the areas of AI, machine learning, and data science with the aim of commercializing their innovations
- Angela Koehler takes on the most challenging drug targets
Angela Koehler, an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT, has made it her mission to find ways to drug “undruggable” targets By taking aim at proteins that interact with these targets, she can indirectly disable them or reduce their impact
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