Cohort of 22 early-career interdisciplinary Fellows is third to join the Schmidt Science Fellows community and Wendy Schmidt announced today the 22 early-career scientists who comprise the third cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, a program of Schmidt Futures, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. The new Fellows aim to harness interdisciplinary approaches to tackle long-term … Continued
Soft robots could open fundamentally new capabilities and applications for robots by freeing them from the many restrictions that result from having a traditional rigid body. However, a major challenge for autonomous soft robots is figuring out how to actually control them. First, being highly deformable and compliant means a soft robotic limb can be … Continued
Many cycling technologies have been developed that allow multiplexed single cell profiling but current methods are very slow (~ 30 mins) and work with samples that can withstand harsh destaining/quenching conditions. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have developed an ultra-fast, gentle cycling method (< 1 sec) that can profile the immune landscape of … Continued
A new podcast series, ‘Impact’, from the Rhodes Trust features our Executive Director and Rhodes Senior Scholar, Dr. Megan Wheeler, in the first episode. Megan talks about her career path as she moved from research neuroscience to clinical psychology, to now leading the Schmidt Science Fellows program. The interview covers her personal reflections on the … Continued
Read the Annual Report in full here We are pleased to publish our 2018-2019 Annual Report, highlighting the development of the Schmidt Science Fellows program, the achievements of our Fellows, and the growth of our Fellowship community. Since the announcement of our first cohort in April of 2018, Schmidt Science Fellows has developed into a … Continued
This case study features in the Schmidt Science Fellows Annual Report 2018-2019. Dr. Mercy Asiedu grew up in Ghana before completing her PhD at Duke University, North Carolina. Her research curiosities are driven by understanding how health inequalities exist, and how she can use her expertise in biomedical engineering to address them through advances … Continued
This case study features in the Schmidt Science Fellows Annual Report 2018-2019. Professor Daniela Rus is Director of CSAIL – the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. She was Principal Investigator to 2018 Fellow, Dr. Ryan Truby during his Fellowship year and subsequent Additional Study Grant. Ryan combined his background in materials … Continued
This case study features in the Schmidt Science Fellows Annual Report 2018-2019. During his PhD, Dr. Hal Holmes developed a DNA ‘barcode’ reader to help identify the origin of naturally-derived products being traded around the world. While the device showed promise, he found extracting samples for DNA analysis for some products challenging. As a … Continued
The 2019 Schmidt Science Fellows recently attended the second Global Meeting of their Fellowship year in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by MIT, the Broad Institute, and Harvard University. Megan Wheeler, Executive Director, Schmidt Science Fellows, commented: “We convene our Fellows in Cambridge, Massachusetts, because it is a unique and special hub for interdisciplinary science and innovation. … Continued
Dr. Mercy Asiedu writes about her experience during the Cambridge Global Meeting and her takes on growth in learning. I guess it is of no surprise that switching fields from biomedical engineering with a focus on devices and global health, to computer science in one of the top machine learning labs at MIT, with Schmidt … Continued