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Credits: Photo: Elia Kneiriemen/J-WAFS Caption: Members of the research team (left to right:) Zi Hao Foo, Omar Labban, Grace Goon, and Annetoinette Figueroa. Credits: Photo courtesy of the researchers Caption: Mechanical engineering professors John Lienhard and Xuanhe Zhao teamed up to combine their expertise in desalination and soft materials. ...

Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: The summer before her junior year, Flora Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside members of MIT D-Lab to work on the Okoa Project, an ambulance trailer that can be attached to motorcycles. While there, she discovered her interest in water research after seeing children use a well pump to get clean water. Credits: Photo courtesy of the Okoa Project. ...

Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that improved the lives of others. Her work on medical devices in the MIT Media Lab and with a startup helping rural dairy farmers in India both had a tangible impact, but didn’t quite satisfy her goal of reducing inequality and making a difference on a global scale. Credits: Photo: John Freidah ...

Today, lets read an old book about a new world. The University of Houstons College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. Its 1832. Our 20th century world is just a premonition in peoples minds. The forty years of upheaval that began with the American Revolution finally ended w...

Today, farming comes to Europe. The University of Houstons College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. In fall, 1974, my family and I walked a trail on the plateau above the Serbian side of the Danube. It was rainy and verdant. Small farms broke into the forest here and ther...

Today, Europe invents Johann Gutenberg. The University of Houstons College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. We date book-printing with Gutenbergs Bible in 1456. One day we wrote books with pens. The next we went to the book store. And thats only a small exaggeration. By 1...

Issues of the 1916 American Review of Reviews reveal a strange view of war. The last Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War had not brought horror home to most Americans. The Civil War certainly had, but it was now a recollection of a previous generation. Most people remembered its heroics far more clearly than its agony and blood. By now, WW-I had settled into a trench war of attrition in Europe; but itd be another year before we joined that fight. At the momen...