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Credits: Photo courtesy of the Division of Student Life Caption: This portable movie screen (shown in Stata's outdoor amphitheater) has since been moved to Kresge Lawn to accommodate bigger movie-night audiences Credits: Photo: Division of Student Life Caption: Spaces around the Student Center (W20) have been festooned with inviting bistro lights. Credits: Photo courtesy of the Division of Student Life Caption: ...
Share Two distinguished MIT chemical engineers, Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor bestowed upon MIT faculty members. Hammond, who chairs MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, is renowned for her work in developing novel polymers and nanomaterials, while Chakraborty, the founding director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is a pioneer in applying computational techniques to challenges in the field of immunology, including vaccine development. “At MIT, the distinction of Institute Professor desig...
Credits: Hammond image: Bryce Vickmark. Chakraborty image: courtesy of Arup Chakraborty Previous image Next image Two distinguished MIT chemical engineers, Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor bestowed upon MIT faculty members. Hammond, who chairs MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, is renowned for her work in developing novel polymers and nanomaterials, while Chakraborty, the founding director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is a pioneer in applying computation...
Next image MIT’s Task Force 2021 and Beyond has released an initial menu of more than 50 ideas to reimagine and reposition the Institute for the post-Covid world. Now, members of the MIT community are urged to review the proposals and weigh in — helping the task force and Institute leadership to focus, in the coming months, on beginning work to implement viable ideas that have broad support and impact. The ideas are wide-ranging, touching upon reshaping the physical campus to harness the power of in-person interactions; helping students, faculty, and staff find rewarding paths at MIT; bui...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology disciplining professor with ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein Updated Dec 18, 2020; A physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is facing disciplinary action for not informing MIT that Epstein was a convicted sex offender. A majority of members on an MIT panel found that Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems and Physics Seth Lloyd violated the college’s conflict of interest policy in connection with donations he received from Epstein, according to an e...