Programs Overview - Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

PhD Programs

Columbia Creates Fast-Track MD for PhD Scientists

As a phd level scientist, we don't actually act like this. Production definitely told these women to hype up the science for this episode | Speishi

AI company Anthropic has a PhD philosopher who’s teaching the artificial intelligence how to “think” and act with good character. Philosopher Amanda Askell tells 60 Minutes she is optimistic she can help AI be ethical. Despite ethical training and stress testing, Anthropic reported last week that hackers they believe were backed by China deployed Claude to spy on foreign governments and companies, and in August, revealed Claude was used in other schemes by criminals and North Korea. | 60 Minutes

Best of luck to Cambridge PhD candidate Spatika Jayaram as she represents the UK at the international final of FameLab 🤞 FameLab is the world's largest science communication from Cheltenham Festivals. Participants have 3 minutes to convey a scientific concept to an audience and expert panel of judges. This was Spatika's winning entry about making our making our brains younger. Watch the final on 25 November: https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/news/famelab-international-final-2025 | University