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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Source: MIT. Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have concluded that ground-level PM 2.5 Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and colleagues have published their results in the journal Atmospheric Environment. Click to enlarge.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. Picard was chief executive of Raytheon and helped the company become a leader in tactical missile systems.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , he also was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the MIT board of trustees. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Princeton.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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In the chemistry module on acids and bases, for example, students are shown a computer-generated version of a wastewater-treatment plant in Baltimore, and they try to make chemically contaminated water safe to drink. STEM at the root Ganguly says she was inspired to help reform STEM education when she was a graduate student at MIT.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop and test a mobility market and information system to incentivize travelers to pursue specific routes, departure times, modes of travel, and vehicle types in order to reduce energy use. Mobility Electronic Market for Optimized Travel (MeMOT).