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A warm glow

Potential applications of stopping light, a breakthrough technique first conducted by Lene Hau and her colleagues in 2001 (IEEE Spectrum)

New recruit

We are pleased to welcome Marko Loncar to our faculty

The road ahead

Calls for supporting a wide range of approaches to science education and research in Longwood, Allston, and Cambridge

Weaving barrels from DNA

A team of Harvard students designed a tiny container made entirely of DNA that could be used to deliver drugs or gene or protein-based therapies to specific tissues in the body (Technology Review)

In good company

Computer Science graduate student Emanuele Viola has won a (SIAM) Student Paper Prize for "Pseudorandom Bits for Constant Depth Circuits with Few Arbitrary Symmetric Gates"

Cool courses

The Crimson has picked ES 221: Drug Delivery, taught by recent arrival Debra Auguste, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, as one of the 15 courses to shop for '06-'07 (Crimson)

Good sports

Faculty and students from Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School's Engineering Technology program fabricated six plastic 'membrane stretchers' (SouthCoast Today)

Hot wired

Computer scientist Matt Welsh has found another mountain to climb - a volcano to be precise

Faster than a ...

Researchers at Harvard University have shown that nanowire transistors can be at least four times speedier than conventional silicon devices (Technology Review)

Rewarding research

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Maurice Smith has been awarded a Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award

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