K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center will prioritize innovations for resource-constrained communities
Collaborative hub founded by philanthropist Lisa Yang will catalyze academic innovation and result in real-world, global impact.
Soaring high, in the Army and the lab
After three deployments in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Jill Rahon is pursuing research that will help verify conformation to nuclear treaties.
Co-creating climate futures with real-time data and spatial storytelling
Five multimedia projects communicating climate futures selected for 2023 WORLDING program, online and at MIT.
Climate action, here and now
Associate Professor David Hsu examines how people and cities can fight climate change locally — and how MIT can do the same.
MIT in the media: 2023 in review
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.
The science and art of complex systems
Senior and physics major Gosha Geogdzhayev devotes himself to climate modeling and writing poetry.
AI meets climate: MIT Energy and Climate Hack 2023
The Energy and Climate Hack presented opportunities for students and companies to collaborate and develop innovative solutions.
Hearing Amazônia: MIT musicians in Manaus, Brazil
In a new documentary film, music’s storytelling power illuminates cultural and environmental sustainability in Brazil.
Satellite-based method measures carbon in peat bogs
The technique could enable restoration efforts and doesn’t require labor-intensive onsite sampling.
MIT campus goals in food, water, waste support decarbonization efforts
Series of 2030 quantitative campus impact goals aims to reduce emissions and inform and advance the Institute’s commitment to climate.
MIT students win Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sustainability award
Anna Kwon and Nicole Doering are the first undergraduate students to receive Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards.
Accelerated climate action needed to sharply reduce current risks to life and life-support systems
2023 Global Change Outlook from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change quantifies benefits of policies that cap global warming at 1.5 C.
Unlocking the secrets of natural materials
Professor Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies with uses “from lab to fork,” including helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods.
A mineral produced by plate tectonics has a global cooling effect, study finds
An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years.
A green hydrogen innovation for clean energy
Fall 2023 Wulff Lecture speaker Sossina Haile ’86, PhD ’92 uses ammonia and a “superprotonic” material for efficient and eco-friendly energy generation.