How can MIT be a game-changer on climate?
MIT Climate Change Conversation gets underway with brainstorming session on how to catalyze change.
MIT Climate CoLab seeks high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change
Twenty-two contests now open to the global public.
Mapping MIT’s path forward on climate change
Students, faculty, staff to join MIT Climate Change Conversation in open, interactive event.
Materials Processing Center marks 35 years
Service to faculty, collaboration with industry are hallmarks of campus-based Materials Processing Center at MIT.
Vargas honored in Dubai ceremony
MIT Tata Center alumna's innovative work with public space empowers residents of informal settlements.
MIT’s sustainability community gets to work
Inaugural event brings together over 100 campus leaders to plan for greater efficiency, reduced waste.
Bringing “everyone wins” recycling to Nigeria
Across the slums of Lagos, a startup’s bikes have removed 600 tons of recyclables in return for rewards.
“There’s no more important issue than energy”
Speakers at 10th annual MIT Energy Conference see progress, but great need for more research.
Cheap, flexible solar
Tuning energy levels through surface chemistry shows promise for higher efficiency quantum dot solar cells, MIT graduate student Patrick R. Brown's work shows.
MIT Water Summit brings experts together to discuss global water challenges
More than 200 people attend second annual summit organized by the MIT Water Club.
Larry Linden: Big changes needed to avert possible climate “catastrophe”
Alumnus and prominent conservationist calls for carbon tax to combat global warming.
Alumnus Larry Linden to speak on his “journey to climate activism”
Founder of Linden Trust for Conservation to speak at MIT this week.
MIT-USAID program releases pioneering evaluation of solar lanterns
First report of Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation offers new framework for assessment.
Tonio Buonassisi seeks to make solar cells competitive
Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world.
$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development
Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China.