Category Archives: Schools

Professor John M. Essigmann – Mentor and Friend – Wins MIT’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award

Professor John Essigmann was awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King Leadership Award tonight for his work over his tenure at MIT as an advocate for the minority community making students, faculty, and all other members of MIT feel welcome at … Continue reading

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Beyond the mind’s eye – blind photography and other photonic sensing

This topic has been in the news lately.  It seems that there is new research that reveals a primal sense of awareness and vision underlying our ability to recognize visual images.  I first came across this in a piece done … Continue reading

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Nanocarbon tubes and other techno-art mediums

If you haven’t seen this, you should go to the NanObama web site and take a look at this new art medium that uses nanocarbon tube structures as the basis for creating images and electronic figures.  While you are there, … Continue reading

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Jarrett Goetz – Entrepreneur Extraordinaire

I met Jarrett during my stint as Vice President of the MIT Graduate Student Council in the 2004-2005 school year.  He was in the MIT Sloan Fellows program and Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) program and I … Continue reading

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