Thirteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won fellowships from the U.S. State Department's Fulbright U.S. Student Program to pursue grants overseas in 2023-24. For four years in a row, MIT has been named a Fulbright Top-Producing Institution.
VBL team receives $100,000 award to track abdominal aortic aneurysms
The Vascular Bioengineering Lab (VBL) at the University of Pittsburgh s Swanson School of Engineering seeks to understand and develop solutions to the causes and effects of disease in tubular tissue and organs. Part of this research includes a closer look at abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) the 15th leading cause of death in the United States.
An AAA occurs when the aorta weakens and begins to irreversibly dilate, like a slowly inflating balloon. If left untreated, the risk of rupture increases and has a 90 percent rate of mortality.
The VBL team is working to develop a new model to better predict at-risk patients and are using tools from the lab to perform shape analysis and biomechanical simulations. They will use these data to train a machine learning algorithm to classify different types of aneurysm outcomes. This classifier will be used to develop a predictive model that can help guide clinicians and deter
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MIT Federal Credit Union has partnered with MIT’s Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (PKG) to establish a social impact internship position to give students an opportunity to contribute content to “Student Talk,” a new feature on on the credit union’s Money Talk blog.
The position was offered as part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Independent Activities Period, a four-week term in January before the start of the spring semester. The PKG Center provides public service programs for the MIT community.
“PKG Center’s Social Impact Internship (SII) Program focuses on providing financial education for students and marginalized communities, and it seemed an obvious fit for the credit union,” MIT FCU said in a statement.