NEET News Highlight
January 31, 2023
Biology and computer science major Sherry Nyeo '23, NEET Living Machines scholar, conducts research on RNA and spends her free time helping other undergraduates take advantage of MIT’s many diverse course and program offerings. When she’s not analyzing data about her favorite biomolecule, senior Sherry Nyeo focuses on improving the undergraduate experience at MIT.
Looking beyond “technology for technology’s sake”
Nov 30, 2022
“Learning about the social implications of the technology you’re working on is really important,” says senior Austen Roberson. Whether building robots or helping to lead the National Society of Black Engineers, senior Austen Roberson is thinking about the social implications of his field.
Tackling social issues through engineering and theater
October 16, 2022
Senior Susan Su, from NEET's Living Machines thread was recently featured on MIT News. Find out how Susan finds inspiration in the creativity at work in both makerspaces and the theater, where she works in technical and design roles.
Crisis and catalyst: The impact of COVID-19 on global practice in engineering education
October 28, 2022
This report forms one element of the CEEDA study, which explores the impact of COVID-19 ‘emergency teaching’ on the engineering education sector. The first output is the Crisis and Catalyst report, which explores feedback from across the global engineering education community on the experience of emergency teaching and how it might impact the future trajectory of the sector. The second output is a series of in-depth case studies which explore the institutional response to emergency teaching at six leading universities in engineering education.
An interdisciplinary journey through living machines
October 19, 2022
With NEET, Sherry Nyeo is discovering MIT’s undergraduate research community at the intersection of computer science and biological engineering. The NEET Living Machines program opens up a community with a vast network of people within bioengineering research while they simultaneously earn a major of their choice (computational biology in Nyeo’s case).
NEET Faculty Lead Mike Short Featured in MIT School of Engineering Video "Wizard Professor"
November 1, 2021
Professor Michael Short, NEET CSS Founding Faculty Lead and NEET Associate Director, on how he engages students in his introductory nuclear physics class.
August 11, 2021
Professor Olivetti's contributions include "designing and implementing a subject on industrial ecology and materials, co-design of the Advanced Materials Machines NEET program, and developing a new undergraduate curriculum." She is also co-director of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium.
NEET Steering Committee member Maria Yang appointed Associate Dean of MIT's School of Engineering
August 11, 2021
NEET Steering Committee member Maria Yang, Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was named Associate Dean of MIT's School of Engineering, along with Daniel Hastings, Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
NEET Autonomous Machines Senior Project featured in the May/June 2021 Issue of The Infinite
June 15, 2021
The project was designed by NEET AM seniors Chloe Nelson-Arzuaga, Jeana Choi, Daniel Gonzalez-Diaz, Leilani Trautman, Rima Rebei, and Berke Saat.
April 27, 2021
Professor Griffith's mission is to change the conversation about endometriosis “from one of women’s pain to one of biomarkers, genetics, and molecular networks.” NEET Living Machines students have the opportunity to do research in Professor Griffith's Center for Gynepathology Research at MIT.
"Up for a Challenge": MIT News Profiles NEET Living Machines senior Jose Aceves-Salvador
April 22, 2021
An MIT Biology major with a concentration in Education, Jose Aceves-Salvador is also a teacher, mentor, researcher, dancer and cheerleader who will be attending Harvard Medical School this fall to pursue a PhD through the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program.
NEET LM Faculty Lead Linda Griffith among five MIT faculty members elected to AAS for 2021
April 22, 2021
These five MIT faculty members are among more than 250 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
NEET Faculty Leads Elsa Olivetti and Michael Short Among 2021 MacVicar Faculty Fellows
March 11, 2021
Professor Michael Short, NEET CSS Founding Faculty Lead and NEET Associate Director, among this year’s Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellows.
NEET Scholar Amy Jin named 2021 Gates Cambridge Scholar
Feb 22, 2021
"MIT senior Amy Jin has won the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which offers students an opportunity to pursue graduate study in the field of their choice at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Jin will join the other 23 U.S. citizens in being members of the 20th class of scholars."
Four MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2021
Feb 12, 2021
Professor Jonathan How, NEET AM Founding Faculty Lead and NEET Associate Director, among MIT faculty recognized for making advances in computer vision, autonomous aerospace vehicles, electric power system analysis and control, and power electronics technology.
NEET News Archive
2020
● NEET Junior Lilly Papalia's Team Wins GM/MIT Blacktop Build in IAP 2020● Saurabh Amin, Professor of Civil Engineering: Striving to make our infrastructure safer● Mark Bathe, NEET Faculty Co-Director: Bioeconomy Distinguished Lecture Series● Universities as Engines of Economic Development: Making Knowledge Exchange Work● NEET presented at the 125th, 126th and 127th Annual Conferences of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)● Class of 2020: 1st Annual NEET Conferment Ceremony Celebration● Testing the waters