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October 20, 2016

3 Questions: Maria Zuber on stepping up MIT’s response to climate change

MIT’s vice president for research discusses the challenges ahead for MIT and the world.

This desalination plant in Israel, called Sorek, is currently the world's largest, producing 625,000 cubic meters of fresh water per day. Boris Liberman, chief technology officer of IDE Technologies, the company that built this and several othe...

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October 19, 2016

How to achieve “green” desalination

Workshop explores ways to reduce or eliminate the carbon footprint of seawater desalination plants.

This aerial view shows a similar solar farm in North Carolina, using the same type of solar panels, illustrating what the new project will look like when it is completed by the end of this year.

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October 19, 2016

MIT to neutralize 17 percent of carbon emissions through purchase of solar energy

Partnership of three local organizations could set a sustainability example for others to follow.

(Left to right): M. Nafi Toksöz, professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS); Oral Buyukozturk, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE); and Hao Sun, a postdoc in CEE. The Gree...

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October 19, 2016

With new model, buildings may “sense” internal damage

System predicts how MIT’s tallest structure responds to vibrations, may help monitor stress over time.

“If there's any place that I can do the weird stuff that I like to do, it would be in academia, and it would be at MIT,” says PhD student Lily Bui. “I'm not quite satisfied with being pigeonholed into one role, and I think that's just going t...

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October 13, 2016

Harnessing the power of citizens

PhD student Lily Bui works with communities around the world to gather data from the bottom up.

A bubble of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is trapped by capillary forces in a bed of glass beads saturated with water; as the CO2 dissolves into the water, an aqueous pH indicator changes from blue to yellow. The MITEI Low-Carbon Energy Center for Carbo...

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October 13, 2016

ExxonMobil joins MIT Energy Initiative’s low-carbon technology R&D program

Low-Carbon Energy Centers are engaging across industries and sectors in advancing climate solutions.

PolyClean, a team formed by PhD students Karim Gadelrab (left) and Mukarram Tahir, took home the $10,000 grand prize at yesterday’s MADMEC competition for developing a transparent, water-shedding coating for car windshields.

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October 12, 2016

Materials-science innovation on display at MADMEC

Water-shedding coating for car windshields wins $10K grand prize at annual prototyping contest.

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October 12, 2016

Analyzing the 2016 election: Insights from 12 MIT scholars

Experts from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences weigh in on topics from polling to rhetoric to individual campaign issues.

Jessika Trancik, associate professor of energy studies at MIT, will present at the annual Materials Day Symposium.

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October 6, 2016

Batteries power clean energy transformation

Materials Day Symposium will highlight strong potential to cut greenhouse gases with electric cars, solar and wind energy storage.

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