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    Solution for remotely monitoring oil wells wins MIT $100K

    The winner of Wednesday’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition was a startup helping oil well owners remotely monitor and control the pumping of their wells, increasing production while reducing equipment failures and cutting methane emissions. Acoustic Wells, a team including two MIT postdocs, was awarded the grand prize after eight finalist teams pitched their projects to […] More

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    Local high school girls build dye-sensitized solar cells at MIT

    The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the MIT Materials Research Laboratory hosted 26 high school girls from the greater Boston area last month for lunch and a science-and-engineering project building dye-sensitized solar cells. The participants were a subset of about 150 girls attending the day-long Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) in the […] More