“Drawing Together” is awarded Norman B. Leventhal City Prize
Winning project supports collaboration between public housing residents in New York City and a local nonprofit offering training for work in the digital economy.
3 Questions: Blue hydrogen and the world’s energy systems
Research Scientist Emre Gençer describes natural gas–based hydrogen production with carbon capture and storage, and the role hydrogen will play in decarbonizing our energy systems.
MIT student club Engineers Without Borders works with local village in Tanzania
Skills learned in the classroom are applied toward health and sanitation projects.
Developing community around design
MIT Morningside Academy for Design’s inaugural fellows chart a new course.
MADMEC winner identifies sustainable greenhouse-cooling materials
Prizes in the materials science competition also went to a waste-monitoring device and a nanofiber-based yarn.
New process could enable more efficient plastics recycling
Cobalt-based catalysts could be used to turn mixed plastic waste into fuel, new plastics, and other products.
3 Questions: Janelle Knox-Hayes on producing renewable energy that communities want
New position paper calls for getting stakeholders involved in wind power projects from the start.
Ethics in action
In MIT’s Experiential Ethics summer course, students grapple with real-world ethical decision making, often while interning in the very fields they’re studying.
Cracking the carbon removal challenge
Founded by MIT chemical engineers and winner of an XPRIZE Carbon Removal milestone award, Verdox is working to move the needle on climate change.
Computing for the health of the planet
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomes four new faculty members engaged in research and teaching that address climate risks and other environmental issues.
MIT accelerates efforts on path to carbon reduction goals
The “Fast Forward” climate action plan laid out ambitious commitments. Now comes the harder part: making them happen.
3Q: How MIT is working to reduce carbon emissions on our campus
Vice President for Campus Services and Stewardship Joe Higgins describes how MIT is tackling its Fast Forward campus carbon-reduction goals
J-WAFS awards $150K Solutions grant to Patrick Doyle and team for rapid removal of micropollutants from water
The grant will enable pilot-scale water treatment systems to be built and tested using sustainable hydrogel microparticles.
Turning carbon dioxide into valuable products
Assistant Professor Ariel Furst and her colleagues are looking to DNA to help guide the process.
High-energy and hungry for the hardest problems
Fusion physics pioneer and MIT climate change leader Anne White hopes to help “save the world with nuclear.”