by RLE at MIT | Oct 22, 2007 | News Links
The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT today announced it is awarding $1,030,000 in grants to ten MIT research teams currently working on emerging technologies, including a new RLE program on throughput nanoscale imaging. «more» Related Links: MIT’s...
by RLE at MIT | Oct 17, 2007 | Awards, News Links
Mehmet Fatih Yanik has stopped light in its tracks and created a self-contained biological laboratory, complete with large numbers of living test subjects, on the surface of a microchip. Now he is focusing on learning how to keep nerve cells from degenerating and...
by RLE at MIT | Oct 10, 2007 | News Links
MIT researchers have discovered a hearing mechanism that fundamentally changes the current understanding of inner ear function. This new mechanism could help explain the ear’s remarkable ability to sense and discriminate sounds. Its discovery could eventually lead to...
by RLE at MIT | Oct 9, 2007 | Awards, News Links
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named 20 new promising scientific researchers as the 2007 recipients of Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow will receive an unrestricted research grant of $625,000 over five years. «more» Related...
by RLE at MIT | Sep 18, 2007 | Awards, News Links
Professors Ed Boyden, Alan Jasanoff, and Mehmet Fatih Yanik will each receive $1.5 million over five years for winning New Innovator Awards. Yanik, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will “develop microchip...
