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NEET News Highlight

Multiscale Porosity Microfluidics to Study Bacterial Transport in Heterogeneous Chemical Landscapes

May 28, 2024

The latest research co-authored by NEET Living Machines Lead Instructor Dr. Mehdi Salek was featured on the front cover of Advanced Science Volume 11, Issue 20.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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NEET Faculty Lead Mike Short Featured in MIT School of Engineering Video "Wizard Professor"

November 1, 2021

MIT Professor Mike Short, NEET Faculty Lead, on how he engages students in his introductory nuclear physics class.

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NEET Founding Thread Lead Professor Elsa Olivetti wins 2021 MIT Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching

August 11, 2021

Prof. 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.

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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.

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NEET Autonomous Machines Senior Project featured in the May/June 2021 Issue of The Infinite

June 15, 2021

In his cover note, Dean of Engineering Anantha Chandrakasan writes that "You’ll also meet some of our recent graduates who fondly recall their experiences in the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) and working from a distance and across the globe to design an autonomous air pollution monitoring system." The project was designed by NEET AM seniors Chloe Nelson-Arzuaga, Jeana Choi, Daniel Gonzalez-Diaz, Leilani Trautman, Rima Rebei, and Berke Saat.

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NEET Living Machines Faculty Lead Linda Griffith featured in NYT Profiles in Science for her work on endometriosis

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 Prof. Griffith's Center for Gynepathology Research at MIT.

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"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.

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NEET Living Machines Faculty Lead Linda Griffith among five MIT faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2021

April 22, 2021

"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, the academy announced Thursday."

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NEET Faculty Leads Elsa Olivetti and Michael Short Among 2021 MacVicar Faculty Fellows

March 11, 2021

"The Office of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar’s Office have announced this year’s Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellows: professor of mathematics Larry Guth, associate professor of materials science and engineering Elsa Olivetti, associate professor of nuclear science and engineering professor Michael Short, and professor of biology and biological engineering Michael Yaffe."

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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."

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NEET Faculty Lead Jonathan How Among Four MIT Researchers Elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2021

Feb 12, 2021

"Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to 'engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature' and to 'the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.'"