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Second MIT Portugal Bioengineering Faculty Member Honored in Two Years
Prof. Dava Newman, Co-Director of MIT Portugal Program’s Bioengineering Systems program, has been named by Mass High Tech, a New England technology journal, as one of its 11 “Women to Watch” for 2010.
 Prof. Dava Newman Prof. Newman, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems and Director of MIT’s Technology and Policy Program, focuses on a range of interdisciplinary research projects, including biomechanics, systems analysis, biomedical engineering and advanced space suit design. Her MIT Portugal research includes a hybrid human-machine system in which exoskeletons, sensors and electronic textiles are used to improve locomotion in individuals with mobility and musculoskeletal disabilities.
This is the second year in a row that a member of the MIT Portugal’s Bioengineering faculty was honored by Mass High Tech. In January 2009, Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia – whose laboratory focuses on the applications of micro- and nanotechnologies to tissue repair and regeneration – was also named to the “Women to Watch” list, which honors women who are deemed to be leaders in high-tech.
Prof. Newman will be profiled in the newspaper’s March 17 edition and acknowledged at an event held later that week.
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A Star-Turn on PBS's NOVA scienceNOW
Prof. Newman was also profiled recently on one of the premier science programs in the United States, Public Broadcasting's NOVA scienceNOW. Watch video clips on the "Secret Lives of Scientists" webpage, where she talks about the excitement involved in being an aerospace engineer -- and even reveals who her favorite astronaut is.
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