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**CBA News & Notes**

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December 12, 2023

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- A CBA team will be showing notable historical and emerging machine designs in a maker night at MIT's Museum on Thursday December 14:\
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  <https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mit-museum-after-dark>

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  and we'll be hosting our annual *How To Make (almost) Anything* open house from 5:00 to 6:30 on Tuesday December 19, on the 6th floor of MIT's building E14:\
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  [https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.23/](https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.23)

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  - CBA personnel contributed to a study on shape-shifting fibers (that got 11 million views on Instagram):\
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    <https://news.mit.edu/2023/shape-shifting-fiber-can-produce-morphing-fabrics-1026>

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    one on lifecycle reuse of sustainable biomaterials:\
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    <https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/19/14306>

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    and one on biofuels for carbon reduction in shipping:\
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    <https://oldendorff.com/news/stability-and-degradation-of-biofuel>

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    - We're pleased to have received funding to work with Lincoln Labs on superconducting memories for low-power electronics:\
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      <https://www.ll.mit.edu/research-and-development/advanced-technology/microsystems-prototyping-foundry/superconducting>

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      funding to work with the Helmut Schmidt University on Fab City technologies:\
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      <https://www.hsu-hh.de/laft/en/fabcity-decentralised-digital-production-for-urban-value-creation>

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      and we're pleased to welcome Autodesk back to work on tools for advanced manufacturing:\
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      <https://www.autodesk.com>

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      - Sherry Lassiter gave a keynote address to open EdCrunch, the global education conference in November, hosted in Almaty, Kazakhstan:\
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        <https://edcrunch.online/en>

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        - We wish you a happy, healthy, and peaceful holiday season, and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in the coming year.
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