May 2011

Lina Garcia, Tatiana Kish, Huy Nguyen successfully completed their SB theses.

March 2011

"A Report on the Status of Women Faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT, 2011"; Professor Gibson chaired the committee reviewing the status of women faculty in Engineering. Press coverage in Science, the NY Times, Boston Globe, National Public Radio.

January 2011

Lina Garcia joins the group to work on her SB thesis on the microstructure and mechanical properties of bambo.

Huy Nguyen joins the group to work on his SB thesis on mechanics of nanofibrillar cellulose composites.

Tatiana Kish joins the group to work on her SB thesis on the mechanical properties of hummingbird wing bones.

Jarrell Spears joins the group to do a UROP on aerogels for building insulation.

December 2010

Yves Matton completes his SM thesis in Mechanical Engineering, entitled Use of low-density, reticulated, elastomeric foam impregnated with Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids to design an impact absorption material

Thomas Goutierre completes his SM thesis in Mechanical Engineering, entitled Advanced Thermal Insulation for Energy Efficient Buildings: Structural Performance of Aerogel Composite Panels

November 2010

ChondroMimetic, a collagen based implant for the treatment of small osteochondral joint surface lesions, initially developed as part of our Cambridge-MIT Institute project, is commercialized for use in Europe by Tigenix.

September 2010

Cellular Materials in Nature and Medicine is published by Cambridge University Press (co-authored by Lorna J Gibson, Michael F Ashby and Brendan A Harley).

September 2009

Yves Matton and Thomas Goutierre join the group.

August 2009

New York Times article on the bi-layer osteochondral scaffold developed as part of our Cambridge-MIT Institute project.