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PostOctober 3, 2025

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visited the MIT campus on Sept. 29. Wright earned a BS in mechanical engineering and spent two and a half years pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before leaving to become an entrepreneur in the energy industry.

PostSeptember 23, 2025

MIT’s work with Idaho National Laboratory advances America’s nuclear in...

Collaboration between researchers at MIT and the Idaho National Laboratory has led to new fuels, next-generation reactor designs, and progress toward the first reactor in space.

PostSeptember 17, 2025

Working to make fusion a viable energy source

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

George Tynan is excited to tackle what he calls “the big physics and engineering challenges of fusion plasmas” at NSE, and to explore robust engineering solutions for practical fusion energy.

PostMarch 15, 2024

Making the clean energy transition work for everyone

The Energy Conference featured a keynote discussion between MIT President Sally Kornbluth and MIT’s Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, in which Kornbluth discussed her first year at MIT as well as a recently announced, campus-wide effort to solve critical climate problems known as the Climate Project at MIT.

PostJanuary 17, 2024

K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center will prioritize innovat...

Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center founder Lisa Yang (left) sits with GEAR Center director Amos Winter, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering.

PostJanuary 2, 2024

Climate action, here and now

Hsu’s projects frequently yield practical and concrete steps for climate action.

PostOctober 6, 2022

Simulating neutron behavior in nuclear reactors

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Hard problems in math, specifically computational reactor physics, are MIT doctoral student Amelia Trainer's forte.

PostApril 21, 2022

Given what we know, how do we live now?

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Circular ripples in a pond

PostMarch 4, 2022

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness int...

Faculty from teams in the “Building equity and fairness into climate solutions” category share their thoughts on the need for inclusive solutions that prioritize disadvantaged, minority, and indigenous populations.

PostApril 22, 2021

Collaborators in climate action

MIT Energy Initiative

The first webinar in a two-part series aimed at giving members of the MIT community the opportunity to learn about and offer their thoughts on the benefits and challenges of working in collaboration with other organizations was held last month.

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