by RLE at MIT | Apr 28, 2008 | Awards, News Links
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers, today announced the election of a new class of members. Drawn from the sciences, the arts and humanities, business,...
by RLE at MIT | Apr 10, 2008 | News Links
An MIT team has improved upon its landmark technology reported last year in which the researchers used a fingernail-sized lab on a chip to image, perform surgery on and sort tiny worms to study nerve regeneration. «more» Related Links: Live-animal nerve regeneration...
by RLE at MIT | Mar 17, 2008 | Awards, News Links
Professors Jeffrey H. Shapiro of MIT and Horace P. Yuen of Northwestern University were named recipients of the 2008 IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Quantum Electronics Award for “pioneering and seminal contributions to the theory of the generation,...
by RLE at MIT | Mar 15, 2008 | News Links
Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity. In the late 19th century, the realization that electricity could be coaxed to light up a bulb prompted a mad dash to determine the best way to distribute it. At the head of the pack was...
by RLE at MIT | Mar 13, 2008 | News Links
Professor Jin Au Kong, an internationally renowned expert on electromagnetic waves who served on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for nearly 40 years, died unexpectedly this week of complications from pneumonia. He was 65....