A new working paper co-authored by Prof. Pierre Azoulay examines how the passing of a prominent scientist can provide opportunities for other researchers, according to The Economist. The researchers found that “publications by researchers who had not collaborated with the star increased by 8% a year.”

In an article for The Boston Globe, Prof. Emeritus Richard Schmalensee writes that policies should be enacted in Massachusetts that make solar power cost-effective for all consumers. Schmalensee writes that, “public policies must place a greater emphasis on rewarding the lowest-cost sources of solar electricity.”

Kevin Hartnett writes for The Boston Globe about an exhibition by the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism that examines the future of suburban living. “Urban planning doesn’t focus enough attention on suburbia, it focuses on making dense cities denser, which is where a minority of the world’s population wants to live,” explains Prof. Alan Berger.

In an article for The Huffington Post, Erik Rancatore highlights how “researchers at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub have developed a method to incorporate the risk and repair costs of damage from hurricanes and earthquakes into life-cycle analysis of residential buildings.”