Reducing waste and inefficiency, while increasing access and profits, propels MIT Energy Hackathon
Eight real-world industry challenges fuel teams’ competitive spirit and impressive results.
New report outlines MIT’s global entrepreneurial impact
Alumni-founded companies have created 4.6 million jobs, generating nearly $2 trillion in annual revenues.
Taking many forms of expertise to heart
Elazer Edelman’s multidisciplinary teams bring innovation to cardiovascular health worldwide.
Rediscovering fundamental innovation
Eugene Fitzgerald explores the innovation dynamics that produce new technological and economic paradigms.
Rethinking urban life beyond the central city
Associate professor of architecture and urbanism Rafi Segal envisions “dispersed cities” designed to provide greater sociability and sustainability.
MIT delegation engages with global partners ahead of climate talks
Meeting with French leaders and industry representatives at U.S. Embassy in Paris highlights value of interdisciplinary partnerships to advance low-carbon technologies.
3 Questions: Maria Zuber on MIT’s climate action plan
MIT’s vice president for research looks ahead to implementation.
Buildings from the institutional investor perspective
Center for Real Estate hosts architects and engineers from the National Association for Real Estate Investment Managers.
Randall Wright honored by Republic of Austria
Randall Wright, senior liaison officer with MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program, received the Austrian Decoration of Honor in Gold at the Austrian Embassy in Washington.
Desalination gets a graphene boost
Jeffrey Grossman applies new materials research to making desalination cheaper and more efficient.
MIT Climate CoLab, in collaboration with Nike, launches new materials competition
Materials Matter competition, inspired by MIT research, seeks innovations that could help transform the way we view, make, and use materials.
Study: Volkswagen’s emissions cheat to cause 60 premature deaths in U.S.
Timely vehicle recall by German automaker would avoid some 130 early deaths, researchers say.
Charting a new course in Africa
John Fernandez and his colleagues explore urban resource consumption to help guide the development of rapidly growing African cities.
To capture a wave
Themistoklis Sapsis seeks to understand, predict, and optimize complex engineering and environmental systems under extreme uncertainty.