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Read more about the MIT Science Fiction Society at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/n ewsoffice/2012/scien ce-fiction-society-l ibrary-0507.html
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Moving past trial-and-error with Richard Braatz Moving past trial-and-error with Richard Braatz
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Richard Braatz, a professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, believes mathematics can help streamline the road to discovery in pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as nanotechnology.
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Harnessing nature\ Harnessing nature's solar cells
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MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has a vision that within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.
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Michael Demkowicz - Extreme materials Michael Demkowicz - Extreme materials
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Assistant professor in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering Michael Demkowicz designs materials for extreme environments such as high temperature, high stress and radiation damage.
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Bob Weinberg and cancer Bob Weinberg and cancer
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Bob Weinberg is a Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Weinberg lab is known for its discoveries of the first human oncogene -- the ras oncogene that causes normal cells to form tumors, and the isolation of the first known tumor suppressor gene - the Rb gene.
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Bill Gates - Bright minds and big problems Bill Gates - Bright minds and big problems
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Bill Gates, philanthropist and retired co-founder of Microsoft Corp., urged MIT students on April 21, 2010 to focus their talent and energy on tackling the world's biggest challenges, including global health, poverty and education.

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