• While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same underlying theoretical limitations, MIT PhD student David Bierman says, “with solar thermal photovoltaics you have the possibility to exceed that.
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  • Lockheed Martin CTO Keoki Jackson '89, SM '92, ScD '97 (center, left) and MIT AeroAstro department head Jaime Peraire congratulate each other after signing a research collaboration agreement between the two organizations.
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  • Making at MIT happens inside and outside of courses such as in 3.042 (Materials Project Laboratory). Here, senior Frances Lenahan is using a drop tower she and her team built to measure the impact-absorbing properties of materials like those in a bicycle helmet (seen here) and to test original materials inspired by the stunning impact resistance of a ram’s horns.
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  • Since 2013, John Hart (standing, center) has been teaching the MIT graduate course 2.S998 (Additive Manufacturing), which explores the fundamentals of 3-D printing.
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  • Top row (l-r): Mark Bathe, Sangbae Kim, and Paola Cappellaro. Second row (l-r): Armando Solar-Lezama, Steven Barrett, Jesse Kroll, and Youssef Marzouk.
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  • Instructors modeled the competition’s obstacle course after major landmarks from the American Revolution, including replicas of Boston’s North Church, Concord’s Old North Bridge, and the “H.M.S.
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  • Students have fun developing new toys in the undergraduate class 2.00B (Toy Product Design).</div> </div></li></ul></div></div></div></div> <div> <div> <div itemprop=
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    The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has made nine awards totaling $1.3 million under its annual Seed Fund Program.

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  • Jean Sack demonstrates the aluminum-water reaction utilized by her Beaver Works team. The pellets she is reacting with water are made from aluminum alloyed with metals from group 13 in the periodic table.
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  • The goal of MIT's
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  1. Fast-tracking medical device development
  2. Tata Center announces new projects for 2016-2017
  3. Koichi Masubuchi, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 92
  4. Collegiate inventors awarded 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize