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Somu wins the Wunsch silent hoist and crane award for excellence in research at MIT MechE
Congratulations to Somu on winning the Wunsch Silent Hoist and Crane Award for Excellence in Research at MIT Mechanical Engineering
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James named to the Forbes 30 and Under 30 Asia: Healthcare & Science list
Our postdoctoral associate James Surjadi has been named to the Forbes 30 and Under 30 Asia: Healthcare & Science list of 2025
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Somu wins MRS Student Award Silver Medal at MRS Spring 2025
Somu has been awarded the MRS Student Award (Silver Medal) at the MRS Spring Meeting 2025
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Carlos Portela awarded the Army Early Career Program Award
Prof. Carlos Portela has been awarded the Army Early Career Program Award (ARO ECP), one of the Army’s most prestigious honors recognizing outstanding early-career scientists.
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Michael Espinal awarded the MathWorks fellowship 2025
Congratulations to our graduate student, Michael Espinal, for being selected as a MathWorks fellow for 2025.
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LIPIT featured on MIT News
Our recent paper in PNAS was featured on the homepage of MIT News Read the full story here.
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LIRAS featured on MIT News
Our recent paper out in Nature was featured on the homepage of MIT News You can read the full story here.
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Molly and Somu win best presentation awards at NEW.Mech 2023
Kudos to Rachel, James, Bastien, Molly, and Somu for presenting teaser talks at NEW.Mech 2023. Also, congrats to Molly and Somu for winning the best presentation award.
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Portela research group awarded J-WAFS seed grant
Carlos Portela is one among 15 PIs across MIT to be awarded the J-WAFS seed grant to conduct early work to solve issues ranging from water contamination to aquaculture monitoring and management.
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Somu’s project to be sent to the ISS and the moon.
We celebrate Humanity United with MIT Arts and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS), a project for which Somu is the lead of manufacturing and testing, that will be sent to the ISS in May 2023 and the moon end of 2023.
