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The Globe: Kendall Band

There hasn’t been too much activity here on the RFL blog: as anyone that has spent any time at MIT knows, the end of April and beginning of May tend to be a time of overwhelming work. Students are trying to finish up their semesters and readying for finals — we instructors and professors are [...]

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1st Work Night in Kendall T

Thursday, April 1, was our first night working on Paul Matisse’s Kendall Band sculptures in the Kendall Station T stop. We removed the three instrument handles from the outbound platform — the inbound handles will be removed next. A few things struck me about the first night of work — it was more fun than [...]

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Amos Winter’s Wheelchair

Amos Winter’s wheelchair research and development was profiled today on boston.com. You can check out the story here. Although Amos is a course 2 graduate student and not “officially” a part of DMSE, he has spent many evenings welding in the DMSE foundry. And, we’d like to take a little bit of credit for giving [...]

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