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Chemical engineering
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grant to create a University Center of Exemplary Mentoring at MIT
April 1, 2015 -
U.S. News ranks graduate programs in engineering, business highly
MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; Sloan is No. 5 business school.
March 10, 2015 -
A simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsions
Researchers can precisely control the distribution of liquids suspended within each other.
February 25, 2015 -
New nanogel for drug delivery
Self-healing gel can be injected into the body and act as a long-term drug depot.
February 19, 2015 -
Taking technology from the lab to the patient
Daniel Anderson wants to bring advances in drug delivery and biomaterials to the clinic.
February 17, 2015 -
Engineered insulin could offer better diabetes control
Molecule stays in the bloodstream and is turned on when blood sugar levels are too high.
February 9, 2015 -
Evaluating strategies for HIV vaccination
Study yields insight into generating antibodies that target different strains of HIV.
February 6, 2015 -
Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering
New members include the Institute’s president and the director of Lincoln Laboratory.
February 5, 2015 -
Langer wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Award honors one engineer’s global impact on human health.
February 3, 2015 -
Commercializing a new generation of polymer coatings
GVD’s vapor-deposited polymer coatings improve performance efficiency in critical applications across industries.
January 12, 2015 -
Clocking energy-transfer rates in quantum dots
MIT chemistry graduate student Jolene Mork examines rates of excitonic-energy transfer.
January 12, 2015 -
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.
January 8, 2015 -
Summer Scholars make an impact
Morgan Beck and Sarah Arveson contribute as interns to research in the Tisdale Lab.
December 31, 2014 -
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.
December 23, 2014 -
Out of the lab, into the world
Rhodes Scholar Anisha Gururaj aims to connect life-changing technologies with people who need them.
December 18, 2014 -
Catalyzing greener products
Yuriy Román knew that to change the future of catalysis he’d have to cross the boundary between chemical engineering and materials science.
December 1, 2014 -
Two MIT seniors and an alumnus named Rhodes Scholars
Elliot Akama-Garren ’15, Anisha Gururaj ’15, and Noam Angrist ’13 are among 32 winners nationwide.
November 23, 2014 -
MechE-ChemE startup named Gold Winner at 2014 MassChallenge
DropWise manufactures hydrophobic coating for power plants that can significantly decrease CO2 emissions.
November 4, 2014 -
New way to make batteries safer
Coating prevents electrical current from damaging the digestive tract after battery ingestion.
November 3, 2014 -
Better chemotherapy through targeted delivery
New approach could kill tumor cells in the brain more effectively and avoid side effects.
October 27, 2014