Conversation with Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Conversation with Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Lydia Villa-Komaroff grew up in a large Mexican-American family in New Mexico. She received her PhD from the MIT Dept. of Biology, where she worked with David Baltimore and Harvey Lodish on Polio virus. She did her postdoctoral training at Harvard where she also worked with Walter Gilbert on ...
Corporate Opportunities in Urban Mobility
Corporate Opportunities in Urban Mobility: A Conversation with Ryan Chin
Ryan Chin is a Research Specialist and PhD Candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research in urban mobility systems addresses the energy and mobility problems of 21st century cities such as energy efficiency, congestion, urban land-use, and carbon emissions leading to ...
Daniel Casey: Exploring a "little star" on Earth
Daniel Casey: Exploring a "little star" on Earth
Daniel CASEY : Exploring a "little star" on Earth PhD Candidate Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Darcy Wanger's Personal Story
Darcy Wanger's Personal Story
Darcy describes her realization that science is not something "done — in the past tense" by people long ago, but rather an exciting pursuit that requires social interactions to solve current real-world questions.
Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, expand and then collapse? From Adam Smith and Max ...
Deciphering the Dariv
Deciphering the Dariv
Claire Bucholz, a Ph.D. candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studies rocks in an ancient subduction zone now lying in the heart of land-locked Mongolia. In particular, she has spent the last two summers, building an understanding of a unique island arc-related alkaline fractionation ...
Denise Johnson, LGO '97, on the value of LGO to industry ...
Denise Johnson, LGO '97, on the value of LGO to industry partners
MIT Leaders for Global Operations program graduate Denise Johnson '97, General Manager for Specialty Products at LGO partner Caterpillar, speaks about the value to industry partners of participation in LGO. LGO is MIT's dual-degree MBA and Engineering Master's graduate ...
Derek Sutherland : Powering space voyages
Derek Sutherland : Powering space voyages
“So what exactly could you do with a bachelor’s degree from NSE?” Read more at the Nuclear Science & Engineering website.
Designing Probes to Image Proteins Inside Living Cells
Designing Probes to Image Proteins Inside Living Cells
Samuel Thompson discusses his research on designing new tools to track the movement of proteins within cells.