CBA News & Notes
July 10, 2020
- We hope that you and your friends, family, and colleagues remain safe. Along with our work on the immediate pandemic response:
and support for MIT's commitment to addressing systemic racism:
we're pleased to be returning to the lab for research as part of MIT's research ramp-up:
- CBA is co-hosting two upcoming online events that are open for registration. One is the annual gathering of the fab lab network, focusing on its contribution to the pandemic recovery:
and the second one follows the event we hosted at MIT last year on interspecies communication:
- Congratulations to CBA alum Nadya Peek on being selected as a TR35 innovator:
to alum Sam Calisch on being selected as a Cyclotron Road Fellow:
and to alum Josh Smith on being selected as an IEEE Fellow:
- We're delighted to report that our work on morphing aerostructures was recognized as one of MIT's top stories last year:
- CBA teams significantly expanded the range of genome editing:
found promising peptide targets for COVID-19:
and contributed microfluidics to the realization of single-electron transfer reactions:
- Here are videos on CBA work on the pandemic response:
on autonomy:
on innovation:
and on space fabrication:
- Just before the pandemic shutdown a CBA team deployed a super fab lab in Kerala (India), aimed at providing regional capacity to produce fab labs:
- CBA teams have received new research awards from DARPA, to develop particle systems for multiphysics modeling:
and from NIST, for work with the Materials Genome Initiative on machines that measure material models:
- CBA patents have issued for self-assembling assemblers:
production of composite parts:
and discretely assembled logic blocks:
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