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Robert Langer receives Dr. Paul Janssen Award

Award honors “scientists who have made a transformational contribution toward the improvement of human health.”

February 13, 2024

MTL Seminar: Shaping a soft future—Mar. 13

Join the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) for a seminar by Michael Dickey, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University.

12 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET
Allen Room (36-462)

MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2024

Marc Baldo, Jacopo Buongiorno, and Hsiao-hua Burke, along with 13 additional MIT alumni, are honored for significant contributions to engineering research, practice, and education.

February 12, 2024

NT24 Nanotechnology Conference—Abstracts due Feb. 16

NT24 is the 24th conference of the NT series, one of the most influential scientific conferences in the field of nanoscience and technology. NT24 will take place from June 23-28, 2024 at MIT.

#HackDisability: AI for Accessibility—Feb. 23

The Howe Innovation Center and MIT CSAIL are hosting #HackDisability: AI for Accessibility – a hackathon that will bring together diverse teams of software and hardware engineers, students, product managers, MBAs, designers, and people with the lived experience of having a disability, with the shared goal of developing innovative AI solutions to enhance accessibility for people with disabilities.

This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs

The sticky, wearable sensor could help identify early signs of acute liver failure.

February 9, 2024

Technique could improve the sensitivity of quantum sensing devices

The method lets researchers identify and control larger numbers of atomic-scale defects, to build a bigger system of qubits.

February 8, 2024

MIT students win national materials design competition

At the ASM Materials Education Foundation’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Competition, seniors Louise Anderfaas and Darsh Grewal design a super-strong aluminum plate for applications such as planes and cars.

February 8, 2024

J-WAFS Fellowships for Water and Food Solutions; Deadline March 1

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) is currently accepting applications for the 2024-2025 J-WAFS Fellowships for Water and Food Solutions. This opportunity is for MIT PhD students with research in water or food systems.

MIT physicists capture the first sounds of heat “sloshing” in a superfluid

The results will expand scientists’ understanding of heat flow in superconductors and neutron stars.

February 8, 2024

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