CEE seed funding fosters multidisciplinary research
Program encourages new approaches to grand challenges in energy, environment, and sustainable materials and cities.
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MIT team wins Clean Energy Prize for solving solar’s shade problem
Unified Solar takes home $225,000 for a circuit that augments the output of partially shaded solar cells.
Solving a mystery of thermoelectrics
New analysis explains why some materials are good thermal insulators while similar ones are not.
Welcome to the nano age
MIT.nano will help researchers apply the power of nanotechnology to solve big problems.
New building will be a hub for nanoscale research
“MIT.nano,” to be built in the heart of campus, will house advanced cleanroom, imaging, and prototyping facilities.
Doing more
AeroAstro’s flexible degree program helped Kwami Williams pursue his passion to change the world.
Biotech to the rescue
Ram Sasisekharan’s startups provide novel methods to fight disease and make better drugs.
Brewing up sustainability
Novel system devised by MIT spinout Cambrian Innovation uses microbes to treat, extract power from wastewater.
Smart components that assemble themselves
Skylar Tibbits launches the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where researchers are building materials that can coalesce on their own to form structures.
Goodbye, USA; Sawubona, South Africa!
Terrascope student sees firsthand the complexity of water security in South Africa.
The art and science of letterlocking
MIT Libraries’ conservator shares historic letterlocking techniques
Professor emerita Joan Jonas to represent U.S. at Venice Biennale
A pioneering figure in performance art and video, Jonas will create a multimedia installation for the U.S. Pavilion in Venice
New Course 1 program prepares students to solve today's major challenges
The flexible undergraduate program, launching this fall, mixes rigor and depth with applications to critical areas of societal importance.