MIT.nano

MIT.nano Job Opening: Applications Engineer

The Applications Engineer will play a key role in implementing and maintaining MIT.nano’s lab management system – NanoFab Equipment Management & Operations (NEMO) MIT.nano is a large shared services facility with over 1,000 users and hundreds of tools and instruments. NEMO, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is an open source web application used to schedule reservations, enable/disable tools, track maintenance issues, track tool usage, and more.

March 29, 2024

Vertical Semiconductor Signs Letter of Intent with U.S. Department of Commerce for $73 Million in CHIPS Funding to Accelerate R&D of Vertical GaN Power Transistors

Vertical Semiconductor, a member of START.nano, announced it has signed a letter of intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Research and Development Office (CRDO) to receive up to $73 million in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act.

Compton Lecture: Constituting Democracy in the Era of AI—Oct. 22

The 2026 Compton Lecture will be delivered by Harvard University Professor Martha Minow.

October 22, 2026
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Submit your abstract for MARC 2027!—Due Nov. 23

MARC2027 will be held in-person. After submission and review of abstracts, conference attendees will be asked to submit a poster and voluntarily present a 60-second research pitch at MARC. Researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts, according to the following guidelines, no later than the abstract deadline.

The ocean’s most abundant “loner” microbe has a sticky second life

Researchers in the Chisholm lab find Prochlorococcus can switch between drifting alone and living in attached communities, a discovery that could reshape estimates of how much carbon the ocean moves to the deep sea.

October 20, 2026

STUDIO.nano Resonances Lecture—Invented pasts, past inventions: When technological myths survive historical evidence—Oct. 26

Join STUDIO.nano for the next Resonances Lecture! Professor Paola Bertucci from Yale University will present her talk: Invented pasts, past inventions: When technological myths survive historical evidence.

Monday, October 26, 2026
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM ET
MIT.nano Building 12 Room 0168

Powering the AI Era: The Essential Role of Semiconductors—Nov. 4

Join MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing & the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) on Wednesday November 4th, at the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing for a fireside chat and panel discussion with GlobalFoundries Executive Chairman Thomas Caulfield. Caulfield will explore the critical role semiconductors play in advancing artificial intelligence.

4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
MIT College of Computing