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Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at MIT and a leader in the development of tiny particles known as quantum dots, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2023. He will share the prize with Louis Brus of Columbia University and Alexei Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology, Inc.
Neal Carlson SM ’65, EAA ’65, PhD ’69 has always liked to fix things, so when his church needed someone to repair bicycles for its annual auction, he volunteered. “Being reasonably mechanical, I thought, ‘That’s something I can do,’” Carlson says. “It turned out it’s been a very rewarding process.”
MIT's 2023 Commencement speaker, engineer, educator, and YouTuber Mark Rober engaged with students and researchers while visiting various labs and maker-spaces in MIT Maker Alley.
In this episode of Curiosity Unbounded, President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Fadel Adib about his work and how he’s inspired to solve pressing global issues. They discuss his belief in the importance of inspiring others and democratizing advanced tools and technologies, as well as his early life in Lebanon and his family-held belief that education has the power to change lives.
MIT Mechanical Engineering Course 2-A/6 pairs MechE classes with computer science and electrical engineering. Drawn to MechE by photos from of one of the department’s most notable classes, Product Engineering Processes, Sharmi Shah SB ’23 picked 2-A/6, and a focus on robotics, as a path toward making the world a better place.