Nine MIT students awarded 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Fellowship recipients include 6 from HST and IMES—the awards fund graduate studies for outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants. An MIT senior and eight MIT graduate students are among the 30 recipients of this year’s P.D. Soros Fellowships for New Americans. In addition to senior Fiona Chen, MIT’s newest Soros…
Read MoreAn artificial intelligence tool that can help detect melanoma
Using deep convolutional neural networks, researchers devise a system that quickly analyzes wide-field images of patients’ skin in order to more efficiently detect cancer. Melanoma is a type of malignant tumor responsible for more than 70 percent of all skin cancer-related deaths worldwide. For years, physicians have relied on visual…
Read MoreSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Fifteen new professors, including a new IMES faculty member, join the MIT community. The School of Engineering is welcoming 15 new faculty members to its departments, institutes, labs, and centers. With research and teaching activities ranging from the development of robotics and AI technologies to the modeling and optimization of renewable…
Read MoreKI Image Awards 2021
The 2021 KI Image Awards include winners from the faculty at IMES and HST, and HST graduates. Have you ever wondered how those compelling images that illustrate research are created? The Koch Institute (KI) Image Awards can show how. The awards, which “seek to recognize the extraordinary visuals that are…
Read MoreFor Dr. Daniel Chonde, art, science, and health don’t just enrich each other — they are inextricably intertwined
One of the most consequential lessons Dr. Daniel Chonde, an HST MEMP and MD graduate, learned as an undergraduate at MIT was about attitude. A physics major, Daniel Chonde, currently a third-year resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, minored in theater arts and studied with the Class of 1949 Professor of…
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