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ME students tops at regional contest; third year in row

Success by mechanical engineers at the ASME meetings seems to be getting, well, mechanical. Marissa Post '04 presents her research on aerogels.   More

Making an Aerogel Requires Persistence and Serendipity

Aerogels--often referred to as frozen fog--have become an important part of the College's developing efforts in converging technology.    More

Understanding the maze of Nanotechnology

One of the objectives of the College's developing program in Converging Technologies is to bring together engineering and liberal arts majors.   More

Collaboration is key to aerogel project

The collaboration of faculty and students is essential to the work of the aerogel lab since there is so much overlap in the field.   More

At last, a song about Aerogels

Aerogels, those space-age, ultra-light materials, may hold a lot of promise as insulators. But they are hardly the stuff of music.  Until now.

Meet Liz Lax '05, a member of this summer's aerogel research team, who felt so moved by her research experience that she is setting it to music.   More

The Sol-gel Song, by Liz Lax '05