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Anne White, MIT

September 21, 2019

Anne White named American Physical Society Fellow

Anne White White is one of four from MIT elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for 2019. The APS fellowship recognizes peers who have contributed to advances in physics through original research, innovative applications, teaching, and leadership.

School of Science

Martin Greenwald, MIT

September 19, 2019

For Green Energy, MIT Aims To Build 'A Star On Earth'

The future of fusion energy is right around the corner. You'll find it off Massachusetts Avenue, on Albany Street in Cambridge. It's on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in an old, low-rise, brown brick building once owned by Nabisco.

WBUR

August 30, 2019

MIT’s Hybrid Engine Could Electrify Long-Haul Trucking

A team led by Leslie Bromberg, principal research engineer at MIT's PSFC, has developed a hybrid gasoline-electric engine thought to be the next step toward having long-haul trucks run on electricity.

MIT CTL

bow shock in the Orion Nebula

August 7, 2019

Astrophysical shock phenomena reproduced in laboratory

PSFC's Chikang Li and an international team of researachers have reproduced critical conditions of collisionless shocks in the laboratory, allowing for detailed study of the processes taking place within giant cosmic smashups.

MIT News

August 1, 2019

PSFC physicist Maria Gatu Johnson wins APS award

Research scientist Maria Gatu Johnson, part of the PSFC’s High-Energy-Density Physics Division, will receive the American Physical Society’s Katherine E. Weimer Award, which recognizes outstanding plasma science research by a woman physicist in the early stages of her career.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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