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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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As part of that effort, she installed and operated a receiving station to acquire and analyze data from the U.S. Her team’s research program included projects in Australia and Africa. Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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He came up with a mechanical barrier system that attaches to the hood and connects to the car's electronic control unit. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. Several research articles he came across said it was impossible to create such a machine because it would be unable to print motors and other electronic parts.

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