3 Questions: New England’s wholesale electricity markets
Boreas Renewables' Abigail Krich discusses the incompatibility of New England’s electricity market structure with achieving carbon emissions reduction goals.
Removing health care barriers and boundaries
Through transformative use of telemedicine, researcher and instructor Amar Gupta hopes to achieve better, quicker, and less expensive health care for all.
Addressing bias, inequality, and accessibility in breastfeeding
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering.
What will we eat in the year 2050?
Climate Changed Symposium combines art and science to envision the global food system under climate change.
Using data science to improve public policy
MIT Policy Hackathon, run by students within MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, seeks interdisciplinary solutions to societal challenges.
MIT students and postdocs visit Capitol Hill to advocate for increases in federal science funding
Members of MIT's Science Policy Initiative meet with members of Congress on Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day 2018.
Carbon taxes could make significant dent in climate change, study finds
Several different carbon-pricing approaches would help reduce emissions, and some would be fair as well, researchers report.
3Q: David Goldston on the new federal budget
Director of MIT Washington Office calls bill “very good news for science funding.”
3 Questions: Innovating for the clean energy economy
Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley discusses current efforts in clean energy innovation and implementation, and what's coming next.
How often do medical problems lead to bankruptcy?
Poor health is a less common cause of bankruptcy than commonly thought, but it brings other economic woes, study finds.
3 Questions: The future of transportation systems
Daniel Sperling of the University of California at Davis discusses the major transformations in store for mobility.
Conference advances use of data and evaluation in policymaking
Government leaders, social service providers, and leading scholars gathered for the second conference of J-PAL North America’s State and Local Innovation Initiative.
J. Phillip Thompson named deputy mayor of New York City
Appointment recognizes Thompson's expertise in urban politics and coalition building.