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The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon, carrying messages in more than 64 languages from over 80 countries.

Carlos Portela is the d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research is focused on designing, fabricating, and testing 3D architected materials to address current societal and engineering challenges.

Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.

A campus summit with the leader and his delegation centered around dialogue on biotechnology and innovation ecosystems.

A new low-temperature growth and fabrication technology allows the integration of 2D materials directly onto a silicon circuit, which could lead to denser and more powerful chips.

Mechanical engineering professor receives the NSF’s highest honor for an outstanding early-career scientist or engineer.

Look inside the labs of three MIT researchers whose work could change how engineers design and build. 

The device, which uses electricity to boost hormone production in the stomach, could help to ease nausea and counteract appetite loss.

Rob Macfarlane synthesizes new composite materials by manipulating their structure at the nanometer scale.

The device would be a key component of a portable mass spectrometer that could help monitor pollutants, perform medical diagnoses in remote areas, or test Martian soil.