Caption: For an MIT oral history project, students conducted interviews with Institute alumni. Pictured here is Almitra Patel 58, MS 59, the first woman in engineering from India to graduate from MIT, and a Tech article in which she is featured. Credits: Image courtesy of MIT-India.
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When thinking about how to celebrate the approaching 60th anniversary of Sangam, the Association of Indian Students at MIT, Ranu Boppana ’87, president of the MIT South Asian Alumni Association (MITSAAA) began to reflect upon ways in which to explore the rich history of South Asians at MIT.
“As president of MITSAAA, I met several South Asian alumni who had been at MIT in the ’60s and ’70s. As an alum who was on campus in the ’80s, I could see that they were trailblazers whose presence led to the conditions and opportunities that current students take for granted, like better gender equity on ca
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The team used a technique called X-ray microtomography
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Computer-generated unfolding sequence of sealed letter DB-1538. Courtesy of the Unlocking History Research Group archive. The letters are from the Brienne Collection, Sound and Vision The Hague, The Netherlands.
The team used a technique called X-ray microtomography
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In 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk containing over 2000 unclaimed letters was bequeathed to the Dutch postal museum. The letters were closed using an ancient technique called letterlocking, in which the writing paper is intricately folded and secured to become its own envelopes. Now an international team of researchers has virtually unfolded and unlocked the contents of one of the letters and the findings were published on Tuesday in
Lidia Vasconcelos, Division of Comparative Medicine staffer, dies at age 53 Worked to consistently maintain immaculate, state-of-the-art animal facilities, and provided guidance and support to DCM’s 90 animal care technicians and many active researchers. MIT Human Resources
March 2, 2021 Caption: In her close to 25 years at MIT, Lidia Vasconcelos worked to maintain the highest standards for training, procedures, and husbandry in the Division of Comparative Medicine. Credits: Photo courtesy of the Vasconcelos family.
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Lidia Vasconcelos, an area supervisor in the MIT Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), died of cancer on Jan. 29. She was 53 years old.
“Lidia’s captivating smile displayed her warmth and love for her family, friends, and DCM co-workers,” says James Fox, director of DCM and professor in the Department of Biological Engineering.
Credits: Image: Courtesy of MIT Libraries Caption: Researchers were able to read the contents of a letter from Jacques Sennacques to his cousin Pierre Le Pers, a French merchant in The Hague. Caption: The virtual unfolding technology generates 2D and 3D reconstructions of the letter.
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An international team of scholars has read an unopened letter from early modern Europe without breaking its seal or damaging it in any way using an automated computational flattening algorithm. The team, including MIT Libraries and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers and an MIT student and alumna, published their findings today in a
Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: The SanaHeal bioadhesive is a double-sided tape that could potentially replace sutures, preventing the leakage of blood and reducing the risk of infection, pain, and scarring. Credits: Felice Frankel, Christine Daniloff, MIT Caption: Throughout his graduate studies, Yuk worked with Professor Zhao on a number of applications for interfacing soft materials with the human body. Here, electrically conductive ink based on silver microparticles is being 3D printed on an elastomer sheet with cuts or kirigami to prepare an electronic circuit for the smart stretchable bandage that Yuk and Zhao developed. Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: