Category: News Media
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Sami Khan named Hydro Research Foundation Research Award Program Recipient
Graduate student Sami Khan as been named one of twelve Hydro Research Foundation Research Award Program recipients. His work will focus on novel hydrophobic rare earth oxide-based coatings for enhancing the longevity of hydropower water conveyance structures. (5/30/2014)
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Editor’s Pick (Today’s Energy Solutions): Separating finely mixed oil and water
Editor’s Pick (Today’s Energy Solutions): Membrane developed by MIT researchers can separate even highly mixed oil-spill residues. http://www.onlinetes.com/separating-finely-mixed-oil-water-mit-1215.aspx#.VMg9ZMbEjZo
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LiquiGlide Celebrates First Anniversary Milestones
Cambridge, Mass. – February 26, 2014 – LiquiGlide, Inc., the slippery surface solutions company, announced today that in its first year of operation, it signed 22 clients, finished six coatings and is only months away from commercializing the first applications of its technology.
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Liquiglide featured in the Boston Globe
In a region where venture capitalists are pouring millions into startups, where biotechs are bursting with potentially life-saving, disease-halting drugs, Dave Smith’s big idea, born at MIT, doesn’t seem so big.
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Adam Paxson Announced as a 2013 MRS Silver Award Recipient
Graduate student Adam Paxson has been awarded a 2014 MRS Silver Award for academic achievements and materials science research displaying a high level of excellence and distinction. Adam contributed to five talks during the 2013 MRS Fall meeting. (12/6/2013)
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Professor Varanasi featured on TIME program “The Future of Invention”
Last week’s issue of TIME featured the TIME Invention poll, an annual list of the year’s 25 Best Inventions, revealed a wide range of opinions about who inventors are, how they do their work and which countries are the most inventive.
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Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop
November 20th, 2013: Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop featured on BBC News, MIT News, FastCompany, and NSF News.
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Postdoc Sushant Anad wins Branco Weiss Fellowship
Sushant Anand, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kripa Varanasi’s Lab, has won the prestigious Branco Weiss Fellowship awarded by the Swiss Federal Institute of ETH Zurich. He is one of the nine new fellows to win this fellowship for 2013. (7/24/2013)
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July 15th, 2013: Prof. Varanasi wins 2013 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award
July 15th, 2013: Prof. Varanasi wins 2013 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award Prof. Kripa Varanasi has received the 2013 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) that recognizes him work as an emerging leader at the crossroads of thermal sciences, nanotechnology and manufacturing. The award is being bestowed by the American Society of…