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**CBA News & Notes**

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May 16, 2022

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- We recommend a guide from the Fab Foundation on ways to help with both the immediate response to the war in Ukraine and with its eventual recovery:\
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  <https://fabfoundation.org/#ukraine>

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  - To help expand access to advanced measurement for a range of important needs, this August we're hosting a workshop on open metrology in collaboration with NIST:\
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    <https://cba.mit.edu/events/22.08.OM/>

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    - The annual fab lab network gathering will be held in Bali in October, with a focus on its unique innovation and craft ecosystem:\
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      <https://fab17.fabevent.org/>

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      - Patricia Stathatou led an article on biofuels for reducing the environmental impact of shipping, which was the cover of The Royal Society of Chemistry's *Sustainable Energy & Fuels* journal:\
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        <https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/se/d1se01495a>

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        - Alums Saul Griffith working with Sam Calisch wrote a book about how to fight climate change by electrifying everything:\
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          <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/electrify>

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          - Amira Abdel-Rahman and Miana Smith will be presenting work on swarm robotic construction at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation:\
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            <https://cei.ece.cornell.edu/crc-workshop22/>

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            - Natalie Golota presented work on micromachining diamond rotors for nuclear magnetic resonance magic-angle spinning at 7 million RPM for improving molecular structural studies:\
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              <https://www.enc-conference.org/Melanie-Rosay-Young-Academic-Support-Program>\
              <https://www.enc-conference.org/resources/Documents/General/Program_ENC%202022_as%20of%20April%2014.pdf>\

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              - Neil Gershenfeld spoke about world-building for the Science & Entertainment Exchange:\
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                <http://scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/blog/world-building-making-the-future-real/>

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                and How To Disrupt (almost) Everything for the 2022 MIT Manufacturing Conference:\
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                <https://ilp.mit.edu/attend/22-manufacturing>

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                with his video available here:\
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                <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk2t63SnnbI>

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                He'll be speaking in July in Glasgow about the design of design:\
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                <https://sites.google.com/view/dcc22/program/keynote-speaker>

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                and then in London about the minimum building blocks to bootstrap a civilization:\
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                <https://lml.org.uk/event/the-martian-12a-presentation-by-professor-neil-gershenfeld/>

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                - Finally, here's a peek at the educational journey to master making:\
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                  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6nzcfG2CA>

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