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Energy efficiency efforts aim for an estimated 35 percent reduction of energy use for MIT Building 46. Image courtesy of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Image courtesy of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
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Tackling the MIT campus’s top energy consumers, building by building

A full-building energy efficiency project aims to reduce total campus emissions by 2 percent.

(From left to right:) Cem Tasan, Andrew Whittle, and Fábio Duarte
Technologies for water conservation and treatment move closer to commercialization

J-WAFS awards 2023 Solutions Grants to bring two water-related innovations to the market.

An MIT team has modified a transport truck’s powertrain to allow onboard hydrogen release from the liquid organic hydrogen carriers. Image courtesy of the Green Group.
Harnessing hydrogen’s potential to address long-haul trucking emissions

MIT researchers work to transform truck powertrain design, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium.

The device is an array of piezoelectric transducers that enables battery-free underwater communication. Image: Courtesy of the researchers
Devices offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances, to aid monitoring of climate and coastal change.

The device is an array of piezoelectric transducers that enables battery-free underwater communication. Image: Courtesy of the researchers
Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances, to aid monitoring of climate and coastal change.

Researchers uncovered how carbon dioxide can be both captured and converted through a single electrochemical process in which an electrode, like the one pictured covered in bubbles, is used to attract carbon dioxide released from ...
Study suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2

The findings, based on a single electrochemical process, could help cut emissions from the hardest-to-decarbonize industries, such as steel and cement.

MIT Associate Professor David Hsu is an expert in city policies concerning climate change. Following record-setting heat in the summer of 2023, he describes what cities are now doing in response, and the possibilities for new polic...
3 Questions: How are cities managing record-setting temperatures?

Professor of urban and environmental planning David Hsu explains what municipal governments are doing as climate change accelerates.

Professor Elsa Olivetti has been appointed associate dean of engineering. As associate dean, Olivetti will oversee a number of strategically important programs and initiatives across MIT’s School of Engineering.
Elsa Olivetti appointed associate dean of engineering

Materials science and engineering faculty member will oversee key programs and initiatives across the MIT School of Engineering.

Leila Mirzagholi, an MIT postdoc in civil and environmental engineering, applies her physics and mathematical background to her research in evaluating the impact climate change has on our global terrestrial carbon cycle.
Uncovering how biomes respond to climate change

Postdoc Leila Mirzagholi uses her background in physics to understand global warming's impact on the terrestrial carbon cycle.

Juliet Liao '23 (left) and junior Amina Abdalla (right) found that their social impact internships, at the World Wildlife Fund and MassHealth, gave them a broader perspective on potential career paths. Photos courtesy o...
Putting public service into practice

Through the PKG Public Service Center’s social impact internships, MIT students leverage their analytical, technical, and creative problem-solving skills for public good.