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MIT Portugal students win entrepreneurship competitionResearchers and students from the MIT Portugal Program hope a new biotechnology they developed will help treat patients with medical complications from abnormal protein breakdown. July 23, 2008 Balance problems? Step into the iShoeYour grandmother might have little in common with an astronaut, but both could benefit from a new device an MIT graduate student is designing to test balancing ability. July 16, 2008 A hands-on approach to Third World aidAbout 60 people from 20 nations will descend on the MIT campus next week to begin an intensive month-long process of creating technological solutions for the needs of people in the world's developing nations. July 10, 2008 Polymer expert wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT PrizeFor Joseph M. DeSimone, the interface between disparate fields and concepts offers the best opportunity for innovation. For his pioneering inventions, entrepreneurship and mentorship, DeSimone has been awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. June 25, 2008 Lemelson-MIT's EurekaFest to celebrate inventingEurekaFest at MIT, a multi-day celebration of the power of invention and inventors, will kick off on Thursday, June 26. Organized by the Lemelson-MIT Program, the festival features a series of exciting events in Cambridge and Boston. June 24, 2008 Making a splash in ZaragozaAn MIT-designed building featuring water walls that can be programmed to display patterns and images is being unveiled this week at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. June 12, 2008 Langer wins Millennium Technology PrizeMIT Institute Professor Robert Langer has won the Millennium Technology Prize, the world's largest award for technology innovation, for his development of biomaterials for controlled drug release and tissue regeneration. June 11, 2008 Student project innovates solar cooker in TibetWhen two students visited Tibet two years ago, they kept hearing from villagers that a solar cooker that was both lightweight and strong would make a big difference to their lives. So a team of students from MIT and Tibet ended up producing exactly that. June 4, 2008 |
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