ShanTil Yell

RoleAdministrative AssistantOffice phone617-258-5793Emailsyell811@mit.eduOffice6-107 Biography ShanTil Yell acts as administrative support for DMSE faculty and the graduate and undergraduate academic offices. Before starting at DMSE in…

Accelerating research with AI-assisted experiments

Almost any scientist will be grateful for an assistant in the lab—to save time and effort. Someone to fix equipment issues, figure out the next batch of experimental…

Andreas Wankerl

Biography Andreas Wankerl co-teaches the joint undergraduate/graduate MIT course 3.086/3.207 (Innovation and Commercialization of Materials Technology).  Together with DMSE’s Professor Eugene Fitzgerald, he co-created the iterative innovation process…

Scrumptious or sturdy? Constructing a gingerbread house recipe

Holiday time means tasty sweets in many households—boozy rum balls; decorative bûche de Noël, or Yule log cake; sticky Italian struffoli; a wall or chimney from the gingerbread…

Angela Belcher delivers 2023 Dresselhaus Lecture on evolving organisms for new nanomaterials

“How do we get to making nanomaterials that haven’t been evolved before?” asked Angela Belcher at the 2023 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture at MIT on…

3 Questions: Darrell Irvine on making HIV vaccines more powerful

An MIT research team led by Professor Darrell Irvine has developed a novel kind of vaccine adjuvant: a nanoparticle that can help to stimulate the immune system to…

MIT Generative AI Week fosters dialogue across disciplines

In late November, faculty, staff, and students from across MIT participated in MIT Generative AI Week. The programming included a flagship full-day symposium as well as four…

Computational Materials Design Short Course

This course will provide valuable insights into how the ICMD® platform and Materials by Design® technology can be utilized to design, develop and deploy materials. During…

MIT engineers develop a way to determine how the surfaces of materials behave

Designing new compounds or alloys whose surfaces can be used as catalysts in chemical reactions can be a complex process relying heavily on the intuition of experienced chemists.

Fantastic Feathers: Form and Function

When we think of birds, we think of feathers. Feathers give birds their color, from the bright red of a male cardinal to the iridescent reds and greens…