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DMSE alums share insights on building a clean tech startup

March 28, 2023

Tomás Villalón and Michelle Chao of sustainable mining company Phoenix Tailings discuss scrappy beginnings, technology innovation, and making it all work.

A path to more efficient diagnoses

March 22, 2023

Through MIT’s Kavanaugh Fellowship, postdoc Diana Mojahed is miniaturizing a microscope to image disease—and exploring commercial opportunities.

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2023

March 22, 2023

Materials science among top-ranked subjects. The Institute also ranks second in five areas.

DMSE-led teams win National Science Foundation grants to research sustainable materials

March 22, 2023

The teams will work toward sustainable microchips and topological materials as well as socioresilient materials design.

DMSE grad student group Kitchen Matters leads a live cooking show

March 17, 2023

Kitchen Matters, a group of DMSE graduate students with a passion for science outreach and cooking, presented a show about the science of marshmallows as part of MIT's Winter Family Day in February.

MIT’s National Science Foundation grant will advance “socioresilient materials design”

March 15, 2023

DMSE-led effort aims to redirect materials research and development toward more environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable materials.

Aviva Intveld named 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar

March 7, 2023

Aviva Intveld endeavors to span the intersections of materials science and earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences.

Sustainable microchip manufacturing is focus of MIT NSF grant

March 3, 2023

DMSE’s Juejun Hu and Lionel Kimerling are part of the effort to reduce e-waste landfills.

Student-led conference charts the future of micro- and nanoscale research, reinforces scientific community

February 23, 2023

19th Microsystems Annual Research Conference reveals the next era of microsystems technologies, along with skiing and a dance party.

Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”

February 17, 2023

Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.

DMSE promotes Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli and Elsa Olivetti

February 17, 2023

Gómez-Bombarelli has been promoted to associate professor without tenure, and Olivetti to full professor.

Making nanoparticle building blocks for new materials

February 17, 2023

Associate Professor Robert Macfarlane is uncovering design principles that allow researchers to fine-tune materials at many size scales.

Nine from MIT named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows

February 16, 2023

DMSE's Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli and other early-career researchers are honored for their creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

There’s already a better search engine than Google. It’s YouTube.

February 16, 2023

In the debate over whether ChatGPT will kill Google, New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo writes there’s already a better Google: Youtube. It can teach you how to make sourdough bread, walk you through quantum physics, or give you access to Donald Sadoway's chemistry lessons.

FORGE holds its first out-of-state event

February 14, 2023

DMSE’s development program expands with a San Francisco get-together, drawing alums from graduation years 1970 to 2022.

New polymers could enable better wearable devices

February 8, 2023

Aristide Gumyusenge and colleagues developed organic polymers that can efficiently convert signals from biological tissue into the electronic signals used in transistors.

Toward new, computationally designed cybersteels

February 4, 2023

With a grant from the Office of Naval Research, MIT researchers aim to design novel high-performance steels, with potential applications including printed aircraft components and ship hulls.

Engineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs

February 1, 2023

Stacking light-emitting diodes instead of placing them side by side could enable fully immersive virtual reality displays and higher-resolution digital screens.

“Spleen-on-a-chip” yields insight into sickle cell disease

January 31, 2023

With this microfluidic device, researchers modeled how sickled blood cells clog the spleen’s filters, leading to a potentially life-threatening condition.

Bilge Yildiz wins Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science

January 20, 2023

Award recognizes scientists of Turkish origin younger than 50 who have made outstanding contributions to their fields.

MIT engineers grow “perfect” atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers

January 18, 2023

Their technique could allow chip manufacturers to produce next-generation transistors based on materials other than silicon.

2022-23 Takeda Fellows: Leveraging AI to positively impact human health

January 17, 2023

New fellows are working on health records, robot control, pandemic preparedness, brain injuries, and more.

Manufacturing a cleaner future

December 23, 2022

Startups founded by engineers are at the forefront of developing solutions to mitigate the environmental impact of manufacturing.

Five from MIT named 2023 Quad Fellows

December 16, 2022

The new fellowship from the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, administered by Schmidt Futures, supports graduate education in STEM fields.

School of Engineering unveils MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Engineering Excellence

December 16, 2022

With the selection of 16 inaugural postdocs, the program seeks to develop the next generation of faculty leaders and help guide the school toward a more diverse and inclusive culture.