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A Syrian refugee child in Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp in June 2015

For refugee camps, a waterless toilet to improve health and safety

As camps swell, change:WATER Labs aims to bring toilets into individual homes.

January 31, 2017

J. Cressica Brazier, a graduate student in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, displays a tool she’s developing to provide users with feedback on their personal energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Research assistants at energy’s cutting edge

MIT graduate students in energy fields gain skills and advance knowledge while helping to move toward a low-carbon future.

January 31, 2017

Dawn Wendell, senior lecturer in mechanical engineering, helps a student during the motor debugging class in 6.A01 (Mens et Manus: Building on the Science Core).

Adding hands-on practice to science and engineering classes

A new advising seminar incorporates making and other types of hands-on learning to enhance first-year required courses.

January 30, 2017

“Everybody said it was going to be too hard, that you’d have to change the whole compiler,” MIT professor Charles E. Leiserson says. “And these guys basically showed that conventional wisdom to be flat-out wrong.”

Optimizing code

Modifying the “middle end” of a popular compiler yields more-efficient parallel programs.

January 30, 2017

“There’s no question that carbon dioxide is the biggest contributor to human-caused climate change, so that’s the big focus of mitigation efforts. But there are a number of others that are also significant,” says Jessika Trancik, the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Associate Professor in Energy Studies at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.

Explained: Greenhouse gases

Carbon dioxide isn’t the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration.

January 30, 2017

Fadel Adib has joined the Media Lab faculty to head the new research group Signal Kinetics.

Fadel Adib joins Media Lab faculty

Adib is directing a new research group at the Media Lab, aiming to uncover, analyze, and engineer natural and human-made networks.

January 27, 2017

MIT's Maria T. Zuber and Conservation International's Peter Seligmann

MIT, Conservation International announce collaboration on climate adaptation and mitigation

Collaboration will explore ways of working with natural systems to address climate change.

January 27, 2017

Joan Rubin is the newly-appointed executive director and senior lecturer of the MIT System Design and Management (SDM) program.

Joan Rubin named executive director and senior lecturer of MIT System Design and Management

Rubin will manage all facets of SDM to support a degree program that develops leaders who can manage complex systems in an ever-changing world.

January 26, 2017

At StartMIT Innovation Night, innovators discuss their founders’ journeys and the impact they’ve made along the way.

StartMIT’s Innovation Night

Innovators from a range of fields discuss their pioneering work and their founders’ journey.

January 26, 2017

Kevin Kung, a Tata Fellow and PhD candidate in biological engineering, feeds rice husks into the torrefaction reactor in his lab at MIT. A thermochemical process will convert the biomass to a more energy-dense form, making it easier to transport and use as fuel.

Tapping the hidden value of farm waste

MIT researchers are developing mobile torrefaction technology that can convert biomass into clean-burning fuel, unlocking potential income for farmers.

January 25, 2017

Artist's rendering of the MIT Hyperloop pod

Featured video: MIT Hyperloop

MIT is one of 30 student teams testing high-speed concept pods as part of a SpaceX Hyperloop competition.

January 25, 2017

MIT Assistant Professor Amos Winter (right, blue shirt) and Tish Scolnik ’10 were inspired to build a more rugged wheelchair after visits to Tanzania.

Building the mountain bike of wheelchairs

An MIT professor helped turn a class project into a mass-produced product that is helping people in developing countries.

January 23, 2017

“I was interested in clean energy. In a physics textbook, on literally the last page, they made a reference to fusion, ‘the power source of the future.’ I was intrigued and decided to find out more,” says PhD candidate Brandon Sorbom.

Brandon Sorbom: Designing a fusion future

PhD candidate explores a faster, high-magnetic-field pathway to fusion energy.

January 23, 2017

Caitlin Mueller, a professor in the MIT departments of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering (left), and architecture grad student Nathan Brown have performed analyses showing how a computer simulation can help architects optimize energy consumption when they’re defining the shape of a building early in the design process.

Energy-efficient design

MIT researchers are helping architects optimize both design and energy efficiency.

January 23, 2017

MIT chemical engineers have developed arrays of carbon nanotube sensors that can detect single protein molecules as they are secreted from cells.

New sensors can detect single protein molecules

Modified carbon nanotubes could be used to track protein production by individual cells.

January 23, 2017

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