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PostJanuary 10, 2025

Minimizing the carbon footprint of bridges and other structures

Before coming to MIT, 2024 MAD Design Fellow Zane Schemmer, who grew up in the mountains of Utah, earned a BS and MS in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where his graduate work focused on seismic design.

PostDecember 13, 2024

In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste...

Left to right: Anastasia Duncan, Chris Rabe, and Jasmin Liu stand at the loading dock of MIT's Stata Center, where students and faculty go "crufting." Rabe facilitated an interdisciplinary working group of undergraduate and graduate students known as SERC Scholars to co-author a case study on the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.

PostDecember 11, 2024

Enabling a circular economy in the built environment

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

Concrete waste accounts for the majority of construction and demolition debris, representing over 60 percent of the total volume of more than 600 million tons in 2018.

PostDecember 4, 2024

A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful

MIT chemical engineers designed a two-part catalyst that can convert methane gas to useful products. The catalyst consists of iron-modified aluminum silicate plus an enzyme called alcohol oxidase (enzyme not pictured).

PostNovember 25, 2024

New solar projects will grow renewable energy generation for four major cam...

MIT Office of Sustainability

New solar panels are installed on the roof of MIT Building W46.

PostNovember 13, 2024

MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

A conceptual schematic of the new woven electrode design. Researchers wove a series of conductive copper wires (the brown-orange pipe) through a very thin membrane to reach the catalyst.

PostNovember 8, 2024

Startup turns mining waste into critical metals for the U.S.

"Being able to make your own materials domestically means that you're not at the behest of a foreign monopoly," says co-founder Tomás Villalón ’14, pictured.

PostNovember 1, 2024

As a closed Utah uranium mill seeks state approval to reopen, taxpayers are...

PostOctober 8, 2024

Utah has the last conventional uranium mill in the country. What does it do...

Utah has the last conventional uranium mill in the country. What does it do?

PostSeptember 30, 2024

Aligning economic and regulatory frameworks for today’s nuclear reactor t...

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

“A lot of the faculty have that go-getter attitude,” Liam Hines says about MIT. “It’s made me confident to really tackle the things that I care about.”

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