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The $2.1 million funding for the MIT Integrative Microbiology Initiative will support first-year graduate students who join the interdepartmental microbiology PhD program at MIT, and who are interested in environmental problems.
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September 16, 2020

MIT Integrative Microbiology Initiative will stimulate environmental microbiology research

Project supported by the Simons Foundation aims to reinvigorate environmental science by leaning on Parsons Laboratory's past as a leader in the space.

Aerial view photo montage of the Emerald Tutu in Boston Harbor, here shown flanking and protecting the waterfront areas of East Boston.
Image: The Emerald Tutu

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September 3, 2020

“The Emerald Tutu” wins NSF grant for design to protect Boston’s coastline

The winners of an MIT competition to design a future, climate-ready Boston have landed an award to realize their vision.

Before setting off on their six-day-long cross country race, participants of the Clean Air Car Race gathered on MIT’s Killian Court for a photo-op.
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September 2, 2020

Lessons from the Clean Air Car Race 50 years later

The Clean Air Car Race, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in August, had a lasting impact on the auto industry, government regulations, and the students and faculty who took part.

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing is creating 25 new faculty positions that will be shared between the college and a department or school. Hiring for these positions will be focused on six strategic areas of inquiry that wil...

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August 31, 2020

Six strategic areas identified for shared faculty hiring in computing

New faculty in these areas will connect the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and a department or school.

Postdoc Tiange Xing conducts an experiment in the Peč Lab related to the group’s newly funded project to expand understanding of new processes for storing CO2 in basaltic rocks by converting it from an aqueous solution int...

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August 20, 2020

Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions

Asegun Henry, Paul Barton, and Matěj Peč will lead research supported by the MIT Energy Initiative's Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center.

August 18, 2020

New fall class: Exploring Sustainability at Different Scales

The MIT Energy Initiative's Mobility Systems Center has selected four new low-carbon transportation research projects to add to its growing portfolio.
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August 18, 2020

Mobility Systems Center awards four projects for low-carbon transportation research

Topics include Covid-19 and urban mobility, strategies for electric vehicle charging networks, and infrastructure and economics for hydrogen-fueled transportation.

MIT and Princeton University researchers find that the economic value of storage increases as variable renewable energy generation (from sources such as wind and solar) supplies an increasing share of electricity supply, but storag...

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August 12, 2020

Assessing the value of battery energy storage in future power grids

Storage value increases as variable renewable energy supplies an increasing share of electricity, but storage cost declines are needed to realize full potential.

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August 11, 2020

MIT researchers and Wyoming representatives explore energy and climate solutions

Members of Wyoming’s government and public university met with MIT researchers to discuss climate-friendly economic growth.