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PostApril 13, 2022

Embracing ancient materials and 21st-century challenges

An early interest in archaeology led MIT senior Sophia Mittman to explore many facets of materials science, from restoring artwork to developing fruit snacks. Her new passion is finding ways to extract widely used minerals from mining waste.

PostApril 11, 2022

MIT announces five flagship projects in first-ever Climate Grand Challenges...

The winners of the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges (CGC) will become multi-year flagship research projects, helping define a new research agenda focused on addressing complex unsolved climate problems and bringing high-impact solutions to the world on an accelerated basis.

PostMarch 28, 2022

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on new pathways to decarbonizing in...

MIT Climate Grand Challenges finalists are working with promising technologies, materials, and methods that could help unlock a low-carbon future in sectors where emissions are hardest to cut.

PostMarch 16, 2022

Building communities, founding a startup with people in mind

MIT Energy Initiative

Inspired by the MIT community and assisted by his collaborators, postdoc Francesco Benedetti launched a startup to provide innovative technology for energy-efficient, high-performance chemical separations — and won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

PostMarch 10, 2022

Q&A: Randolph Kirchain on how cool pavements can mitigate climate change

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Concrete is one of several cool pavement designs. MIT CSHub has found that cool pavements can benefit cities year-round.

PostFebruary 3, 2022

Students dive into research with the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consort...

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

MIT undergraduates who participated in MCSC UROPs last fall include: (top row, left to right) Hannah Spilman, Claire Kim, Alfonso Restrepo, Cameron Dougal, and James Santoro; (bottom row, left to right) Tess Buchanan, Kezia Hector, Tamsin Nottage, and Ellie Vaserman.

PostFebruary 2, 2022

Reducing methane emissions at landfills

The startup Loci Controls, begun at MIT, uses solar-powered devices to improve methane capture at gas collection wells in landfills.

PostJanuary 3, 2022

Can data help quench the thirst of Pakistan’s most populous city?

MIT Technology Review

PostDecember 17, 2021

Selective separation could help alleviate critical metals shortage

Pictured are rare earth oxides of neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium – all critical components for magnets – that have been processed with sulfidation technology. The violet regions are neodymium-rich sulfide, the green regions are praseodymium oxysulfide, and the orange regions are dysprosium rich sulfides and oxysulfides.

PostDecember 15, 2021

The Soviets turned the Volga River into a machine. Then the machine broke.

MIT Technology Review

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