Michele Dufault, a senior majoring in physics and astronomy, died Tuesday night after her hair became caught in a fast-spinning lathe, university President Richard Levin said. Her body was found by ...

Harvard’s experimental laboratories are planning to strengthen lab safety practices following the death of Yale senior Michele Dufault in a chemistry lab machine shop. Dufault, who was reportedly ...

A senior Yale University science student has been killed after her hair got caught in a machine in a freak accident at a campus laboratory. Michele Dufault, 22, died while using a fast-spinning lathe ...

The W.S.P.L. machine & instrument shop has provided machining and design services to the scientific community for more than 50 years. The majority of our work has been associated with physics research ...

The Machine Shop is filled with tools to support class projects. In their first semester, students taking Manufacturing Processes (MFET-120) learn to safely operate each machine tool and its ...

manufacturing, as well as systems of measurement. Students revisit this lab to create components for senior and other class projects. The Machine Shop also supports the needs of the many RIT club ...