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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, was interviewed onstage at Kresge Auditorium by Media Lab assistant professor Danielle Wood, who then took questions from the capacity audience.Image: Adam Schultz/MIT Solve

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May 18, 2018

Justin Trudeau: Embrace the rapid pace of change

At flagship Solve event, Canada’s prime minister urges audience to help shape the changes transforming society.

The grand prize winner at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition was Infinite Cooling, which is developing a system that captures and recycles vaporized water from thermoelectric power plants. Pictured here are the four Infinit...

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May 16, 2018

Device that recycles vaporized water from power plants wins MIT $100K

Eight teams pitched business ideas, and three took home cash prizes, at the annual entrepreneurship competition.

In January, Flux and the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team went on a road-testing trip in Georgia.Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team.

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May 16, 2018

Powered by the sun

Flux, built by the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team, was recently unveiled at Johnson Rink in preparation for its participation in the American Solar Challenge.

Kouichi Murakami (left), general manager of corporate research and development at IHI Corporation, meets with MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong.Photo: Kelley Travers

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May 15, 2018

IHI Corporation to support MIT Energy Initiative

Tokyo-based IHI will join MITEI’s Low-Carbon Energy Center for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage to reduce greenhouse gases and advance clean energy.

While all global climate models show an overall increase in surface temperatures over the coming decades, when it comes down to regional effects on temperature and rainfall there are areas of significant uncertainty.

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May 11, 2018

Workshop explores intertwined future of food production, water, and climate

Choices by consumers and farmers can help limit global warming, but climate change may also curtail those choices in the future.

Dan Wexler (left) and Priya Patel of EatWell, which won the $15,000 grand prize at this year's Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize competition. Photo: Andi Sutton/Abdul Latif James World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS)

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May 4, 2018

Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investments

Meal kits for “food deserts” and crowdsourced crop-pricing platform win Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize.

Participants from Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan convened at MIT for a two-day event on the future of the Nile water, hosted by Professor Elfatih Eltahir. Photo: Stephanie M. McPherson

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May 4, 2018

A forum on the future of the Nile River

International workshop proposes future directions for long-standing conflict.

A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best type of solar panel for a given location and type of installation.

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April 30, 2018

How to assess new solar technologies

MIT analysis shows when and where advanced photovoltaics would be economic to install.

Signifying the forest, the Climate Changed Symposium dinner appetizer was a trio of dried, preserved and foraged mushrooms — fungi known to help the soil store carbon dioxide and thus slow the pace of climate change. Photo: Omnivore

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April 30, 2018

What will we eat in the year 2050?

Climate Changed Symposium combines art and science to envision the global food system under climate change.

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