Bose Grants fund bold and innovative visions
Magnetism-sensing worms, ancient violins, ionic liquids, and malaria microbes — these are the subjects of the latest research projects to be supported by the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants. In the third round of grants since the program launched in 2014, four MIT faculty members — Polina Anikeeva, Martin Bazant, Nicholas Makris, and Jacquin Niles — have been selected for their innovative and unconventional proposed projects. The awardees presented their projects to MIT President L. Rafael Reif and other invited guests at a reception Monday evening. The grant program is named for the late Amar Bose, a longtime member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, who pursued similarly unconventional research visions. “My dad really was driven by curiosity and would do research into whatever drove his curiosity,” says his son Vanu Bose ’88, SM ’94, PhD ’99. Proposals are reviewed according to the likelihood that the research could...