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<i>The New York Times</i> Dot Earth writer Andrew Revkin speaks at MIT.

Communicating the climate challenge

New York Times’ Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at Earth Day colloquium.

April 26, 2012

DOE, MITEI announce a women in clean energy program for the U.S.

Announced at the Third Clean Energy Ministerial in London today.

April 26, 2012

Taking an innovative approach to battery design

Donald Sadoway’s radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.

April 23, 2012

Assistant professor Bilge Yildiz, left, and Professor Harry Tuller.

Research team wins Somiya Award for International Collaboration

April 13, 2012

A model of a proposed wave-power system was on display at the Energy Showcase.

Big innovations for uncertain times

Seventh annual MIT Energy Conference features bold new technologies in the face of an uncertain economy.

March 20, 2012

Dean A. Horn Award winner, Katy Olesnavage, and Stelios Ioannou from The Cyprus Institute on board data acquisition flight along the Cyprus coast.

Olesnavage wins 2012 Dean A. Horn Award

Undergraduate lays the groundwork for detection of submarine groundwater discharge in Cyprus.

February 3, 2012

As Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, Jessika Trancik focuses her research on the evolution of technologies and on decomposing performance trajectories of energy systems. She is particularly interested in understanding the dynamics and limits of costs and carbon intensities of energy technologies, in order to inform climate change mitigation efforts.

Seminar challenges with systems approach to climate change

Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation tackles the multidimensional challenges of climate change.

January 20, 2012

Research Scientist Valerie Karplus (right) has been working with Henry Jacoby (left), John Heywood, John Reilly, and others to examine different policy approaches to motivating drivers to consume less gasoline in their cars. Using a specially formulated model based on empirical data about people’s vehicle purchase and travel behavior, advanced vehicle types (including plug-in hybrids), and more,...

Designing policies to curb fuel use, GHG emissions

January 10, 2012

Christopher R. Knittel, the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics, discusses policy options for addressing climate change during an MIT Earth Week colloquium in April 2011. Knittel holds the first endowed chair enabled by MITEI in order to recruit faculty in key disciplines for MIT energy research and education.

Knittel named first energy faculty chair at MIT

January 5, 2012

From left to right: Francis Chen, Katherine Lee, and Priyanka Chatterjee, all first-year students, participate in 'Discover Energy: Learn, Think, Apply,' MITEI's freshman pre-orientation program held in August. In the activity shown here, the team works with a set of insulating and sealing materials and a lunchbox that has been retrofitted with an interior light bulb and thermometer. Each team con...

Energy Education Task Force marks five-year surge in energy focused offerings

Nearly $9 million raised for curriculum development so far.

December 13, 2011

Nobel laureate: Long path to economic renewal, but energy innovation could help

December 7, 2011

Carbon capture? Go for the source

New analysis shows pulling CO₂ from the air would not be cost-effective in the foreseeable future.

December 6, 2011

Major global increase in energy use, emissions predicted at MITEI colloquium

November 15, 2011

'Lateral lines' in fish contain hundreds of tiny pressure and velocity sensors that enable them to navigate through currents and eddies as efficiently as possible. To mimic that ability, MIT researchers have developed inexpensive, sensitive MEMS-based pressure sensors and mounted them on a small experimental vessel in a pattern that replicates the distribution of the lateral lines.

Going with the flow

Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels.

November 9, 2011

AUVs: From idea to implementation

One day, researchers predict, these robots will be able to do tasks without a human in the loop.

November 7, 2011

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