Biofuels: Too early or too late?
Professor Kristala Prather engages undergrads in a discussion about the future of biofuels.
From Babylon to Baudelaire and back
In exploring the role of clerics in the Shi’a world, political science PhD student Marsin Alshamary heeds the call of family history.
Target coal or carbon?
Researchers are analyzing coal and energy caps as carbon policy instruments for China.
Maria Zuber elected as chair of the National Science Board
For the first time, women will hold both of the board’s top leadership positions.
Carbon pricing under binding political constraints
Grad student Jesse Jenkins and professor Valerie Karplus discuss challenges of emissions pricing in a new paper.
The geography of carbon pricing
Study looks at why some states could be impacted more than others if a price is put on carbon.
Addressing members of Congress, MIT students advocate for science funding
Congressional visits help to impress the need for scientists' involvement in national policy.
3 Questions: David Autor on global trade and political polarization
Study finds relationship between U.S. job losses due to trade, and political polarization in Congress.
How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make?
MIT study projects end-of-century climate under different scenarios.
U.S. Department of Energy leaders highlight clean energy research, career opportunities
Sustainable transportation, grid modernization, building efficiency among topics at MIT Energy Initiative event with Department of Energy's David Danielson.
New study shows rich, poor have huge mortality gap in U.S.
In unprecedented detail, lifespan gap shown to be large and growing rapidly.
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MIT Energy Initiative and AVANGRID to study the future of the electricity industry
A new collaboration could inform New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision initiative by simulating the impact of distributed resources on the power system.
J-PAL North America launches health care delivery innovation competition
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT aims to help U.S. health care leaders find solutions to key challenges in health care delivery.