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Clocking energy-transfer rates in quantum dots
MIT chemistry graduate student Jolene Mork examines rates of excitonic-energy transfer.
Forbes hails MIT standouts in science, education, energy, technology, and health care
11 MIT affiliates and more than 30 alumni are identified as movers, makers, and game changers in their respective fields.
Spin designers
Caroline Ross and Geoffrey Beach are studying how the “spin” of electrons on nanomagnets could be manipulated to create faster, more energy-efficient computers.
Summer Scholars make an impact
Morgan Beck and Sarah Arveson contribute as interns to research in the Tisdale Lab.
Calling quantum dots to order
MIT chemical engineering graduate student Mark Weidman and colleagues demonstrate how to synthesize lead sulfide nanocrystals of uniform size.
Faculty highlight: William Tisdale
Understanding and controlling how energy moves in nanostructured materials such as quantum dots motivates assistant professor of chemical engineering William Tisdale.
Vivienne Sze receives DARPA 2014 Young Faculty Award
Award honors work on real-time energy-efficient visual data processing for portable media, which will impact elderly-assistance and advanced driver-assistance systems.
Mildred Dresselhaus selected for the IEEE's highest honor
The IEEE Medal of Honor will be given to Dresselhaus in June for "leadership and contributions across many fields of science and engineering."
AeroAstro students organizing Global Space Balloon Challenge
Hundreds of teams worldwide are expected to launch high-altitude balloons in April 2015.
Life in better light
EGG Energy brings solar-powered electricity to rural Tanzania, improving quality of life and the environment.
New law for superconductors
Mathematical description of relationship between thickness, temperature, and resistivity could spur advances.