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Prof. Yoel Fink discusses research and education in his group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineers at the frontiers of photonic materials, systems and applications (June 2009).

Prof. Yoel Fink and other researchers at MIT have integrated a collection of light sensors into polymer fibers, a development with potential to be used as a camera. Prof. Fink's previous work integrated semiconducting materials into fibers, resulting in fabrics with sensors for temperature and light. This work integrates eight sensors into a polymer fiber.

For the full story, see Technology Review.

Dr. Tiffany Santos, ’02, PhD ’07, has been awarded a L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science for her work in materials science at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Santosinvestigates a class of materials called transition metal oxides. These materials display a wide array of properties that have great application potential, such as magnetism, ferroelectricity and superconductivity. Read more at the ANL site.

As of July 1, 2009, Professors Darrell J. Irvine and Francesco Stellacci will be awarded tenure and Professors Randolph Kirchain, Jr., and Krystyn J. Van Vliet will be promoted to Associate Professor without tenure.

Prof. Yang Shao-Horn of Mechanical Engineering with a joint appointment in DMSE also was awarded tenure.

XSite 2009, the XConomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, will celebrate New England innovation and showcase the panorama of transformative efforts underway in the region in such fields as energy, life sciences, robotics, cloud and mobile computing, and transportation—at universities, startups, and large corporations. They will also challenge New England’s innovators to step up and take an even larger role in embracing and shaping the future.