Sports Shorts for Nov. 3, 2014: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Cross Country teams run away with NEWMAC Championships; Women’s Tennis collects NEWMAC awards.
Outside-the-box thinker
Senior Nathan Spielberg uses 3-D printing to build everything from nanoscale chips to houses.
MIT startups win big at MassChallenge
In annual competition, 12 MIT-affiliated teams earn grants and prizes to launch their businesses.
Catching air
Jimmy Gasore is working on Africa’s first high-frequency climate observatory in his native Rwanda.
Lambda Chi Alpha national suspends MIT chapter for at least five years
MIT withdraws recognition, offers members on-campus housing.
Stretching oxides to modulate electrochemical properties
Grad students Lixin Sun and Qiyang Lu are developing techniques for applying strain to materials to accelerate oxygen-reduction reactions for applications in solid-oxide fuel cells.
CSAIL, MechE marine experts win international self-driving boat competition
MIT marine experts win international RobotX self-driving boat competition
MIT students join Olin College to finish first in RobotX Challenge.
Keeping hydrogen from cracking metals
MIT postdoctoral associate Mostafa Youssef and graduate student Aravind Krishnamoorthy tackle different aspects of the problem at atomic scale.
Sports Shorts for Oct. 27, 2014: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Rifle tops Coast Guard; Women’s Soccer goes 2-0.
MIT announces steps intended to minimize unwanted sexual behavior
President Reif: “Sexual assault violates our core MIT values. It has no place here.”
A bumper crop you shouldn’t bump
Sales at the annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch cover the yearly expenses of the MIT Glass Lab.
