Paula Hammond named head of Department of Chemical Engineering
An MIT faculty member since 1995, Hammond succeeds Klavs Jensen as ChemE department head.
An MIT faculty member since 1995, Hammond succeeds Klavs Jensen as ChemE department head.
Technique enables production of pure, uniform coatings of metals or polymers, even on contoured surfaces.
Awards were given to outstanding faculty, and graduate, and undergraduate students.
Christopher Love uses microscale technology to isolate rare cells, yielding insight into human disease.
Students recognized for inventions in health care, transportation, food and agriculture, and consumer devices.
Optimal size and shape allow implantable devices to last longer in the body.
Report highlights enormous potential and discusses pathways toward affordable solar energy.
Funding sponsored through the Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the Environment.
Implantable device could allow doctors to test cancer drugs in patients before prescribing chemotherapy.
Among 197 elected this year to the prestigious honorary society.
Stimulating both major branches of the immune system halts tumor growth more effectively.
Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage brings together researchers from MIT and two Russian institutes to develop advanced batteries and fuel cells.