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Professor of mechanical engineering Amos Winter (left) and graduate students Natasha Wright (on ladder) and Georgia Van de Zande assemble their desalination system a day before the USAID Desal Prize competition, which they won.

Cleaning water without the grid

MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.

February 16, 2016

"Even when you have great technology, you need some incentive for people to reduce pollution. We need to find ways to make the benefit of reducing pollution felt by the ones who are paying the cost of reducing pollution." —Ariel Zucker, MIT doctoral student in economics

Incentives matter

Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.

January 29, 2016

This GridForm model of a village in Bihar, India, shows the optimal layout of hardware for the load profiles of the community. Each building, color-coded by the cost (in Indian rupees) of supplying electricity to that structure, is wired to a central generation/storage node (solid lines), and the nodes are connected to each other (dotted lines).

Going off grid: Tata researchers tackle rural electrification

At MIT’s Tata Center for Technology and Design, researchers are exploring ways to extend electricity access to rural communities in India using microgrids.

January 21, 2016

At the 2015 Paris climate talks, MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni have been observing negotiations and participating in side events. A few of those participating: (l-r) MIT researcher and Climate Interactive director Travis Franck; PhD student Michael Davidson; MIT Center for Collective Intelligence/Climate CoLab Director Thomas Malone; MIT Climate CoLab project manager Laur Fisher; alumna...

Sharing climate research and strategies in Paris

MIT events throughout climate talks underscore Institute’s global perspectives and partnerships.

December 11, 2015

The team poses at a waterworks in Maharashtra, India, with local partners.

Envisioning the future of water for 900 million people

Research from an MIT Tata Center team led by Professor James Wescoat is making strategic planning of India's rural water systems possible for the first time.

November 20, 2015

Fueling solutions

“Fuel” pillar at MIT Solve underscores energy’s crucial role in solving humanity’s biggest challenges.

October 26, 2015

A "Working with Partners" panel discussed unique relationships that have formed between MIT Tata Center teams and on-the-ground partners in India.

Bringing MIT and India closer together

Tata Center Annual Symposium explores many pathways for MIT research to have an impact in India and the developing world.

October 21, 2015

Honorable Minister Piyush Goyal (second from right), with (l-r) research scientist Santosh Shanbhogue, ministry associate Amitabh Prasad, Tata Center Director Rob Stoner, and Professor Ahmed Ghoniem.

Government of India taps MIT expertise for energy solutions

Minister Piyush Goyal meets with MIT Energy Initiative and Tata Center leadership, says of India’s electrification goals: “We will make it happen.”

October 8, 2015

(Left to right) MIT Professor Angela Belcher moderates a panel discussion on climate change, which included Daniel Zarrilli, director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency in New York City, and John Bolduc, an environmental planner for Cambridge.

How to bring clean, efficient energy to the world

Solve conference explores better ways to provide power, water, and food to billions of people.

October 7, 2015

Yang Shao-Horn (center), professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at MIT, examines an experimental lithium-air battery with graduate students Yi-Chun Lu (right) Koffi Pierre Claver Yao.

A day in the sun

MIT Solar Day brings the MIT community together to preview the coming decades of solar energy innovation.

September 16, 2015

Tata Fellows pose with residents of a village in Satara District, Maharashtra, India.

India at the deep end

Incoming Tata Fellows get a crash course on resource-constrained communities and the challenges of the developing world.

August 31, 2015

D-Lab and Tata Center team wins $100K Vodafone award for mobile stethoscope

Rich Fletcher and Daniel Chamberlain will use their winnings to field-test a low-cost mobile device to diagnose pulmonary disease in rural India.

June 24, 2015

The key element of the new microgrid system is the power management unit, seen at the center in this rendering. Various devices — shown here as a fan, a light, and a cellphone charger — can be plugged directly into the unit, along with lines to supply power to other houses. The unit manages the power coming in from solar panels (shown at top), and sends the power either to the devices or, if n...

Bringing microgrids to rural villages

MIT team, working with villagers in India, designs peer-to-peer system to enable local power sharing.

June 1, 2015

Indian farmers with MIT Tata Center-designed irrigation system

Pushing the limits of pump design for small farmers in India

Tata Center team invents the first solar-powered water pump tailored to the irrigation needs of millions of small-acreage farmers in the Ganges River basin.

May 18, 2015

Satellite imagery can aid development projects

New image-analysis methods can automate identification of cost-effective sites for grants or microgrids.

March 23, 2015

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