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SPURS Fellowships offer time out to reflect, learn, and connect

The MIT Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies has hosted more than 750 mid-career individuals from 135 nations who are or will be shaping policy in their home countries.

June 4, 2024

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Getting to systemic sustainability

At the 2024 Earth Day Colloquium, World Resource Institute President and CEO Ani Dasgupta says systemic changes in a handful of countries will be critical to meeting global emissions goals.

May 29, 2024

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Elaine Liu: Charging ahead

The MIT senior calculates how renewables and EVs impact the grid.

May 16, 2024

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2024 MIT Supply Chain Excellence Awards given to 35 undergraduates

Exceptional students from top programs across the US receive tuition fellowships and conditional acceptance to the MIT Supply Chain Management master’s program.

May 15, 2024

Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024

Guoping Feng, Piotr Indyk, Daniel Kleitman, Daniela Rus, Senthil Todadri, and nine alumni are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research.

May 14, 2024

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Scientists develop an affordable sensor for lead contamination

The chip-scale device could provide sensitive detection of lead levels in drinking water, whose toxicity affects 240 million people worldwide.

May 14, 2024

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Four from MIT named 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

The fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.

May 13, 2024

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A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots

A new algorithm learns to squish, bend, or stretch a robot’s entire body to accomplish diverse tasks like avoiding obstacles or retrieving items.

May 10, 2024

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MIT Supply Chain Management Program earns top honors in three 2024 rankings

MIT has been a world leader in supply chain management education and research for more than five decades.

May 9, 2024

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Two MIT PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for their research on water

Jonathan Bessette and Akash Ball have been named 2024-25 J-WAFS Fellows for water treatment technologies.

May 7, 2024

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Seizing solar’s bright future

With laser-based precision tools for measuring and tuning materials, MIT spinout Optigon aims to rev up the energy transition.

May 6, 2024

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Francis Fan Lee, former professor and interdisciplinary speech processing inventor, dies

The former EECS professor and RLE affiliate helped to develop a machine that read text out loud and won an Emmy for work on subtly speeding up film and audio without a noticeable loss of pitch.

May 1, 2024

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3 Questions: Enhancing last-mile logistics with machine learning

MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Director Matthias Winkenbach uses AI to make vehicle routing more efficient and adaptable for unexpected events.

April 16, 2024

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Atmospheric observations in China show rise in emissions of a potent greenhouse gas

Global warming potential of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is more than 24,000 times that of carbon dioxide.

March 28, 2024

A delicate dance

Professor of applied economics Catherine Wolfram balances global energy demands and the pressing need for decarbonization.

March 27, 2024

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