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The 2030 Impact Goals for the MIT campus will help inform campus decarbonization efforts.

MIT News Office

December 12, 2023

MIT campus goals in food, water, waste support decarbonization efforts

Series of 2030 quantitative campus impact goals aims to reduce emissions and inform and advance the Institute’s commitment to climate.

MIT's 2024 Marshall Scholars, Anushree Chaudhuri (left) and Rupert Li
Photos: Ian MacLellan

MIT News Office

December 11, 2023

Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars

Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

At MIT, Isabel Naranjo De Candido is working on improving access to nuclear energy by scaling down reactor size and, in the case of micro-reactors, making them mobile enough to travel to places where they’re needed.
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MIT News Office

December 7, 2023

Making nuclear energy facilities easier to build and transport

Keen to accelerate the adoption of nuclear energy, Isabel Naranjo De Candido works to make small, modular reactors efficient throughout their lifecycle.

MIT News Office

December 7, 2023

MIT students win Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sustainability award

Anna Kwon and Nicole Doering are the first undergraduate students to receive Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards.

In a year of record-breaking heat, floods, wildfires, and other climate extremes, the 2023 Global Change Outlook presents the MIT Joint Program’s latest projections for the future of the earth’s energy, food, water, and climat...

MIT News Office

December 6, 2023

Accelerated climate action needed to sharply reduce current risks to life and life-support systems

2023 Global Change Outlook from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change quantifies benefits of policies that cap global warming at 1.5 C.

Professor Benedetto Marelli uses silk-based technologies to help crops grow and to preserve perishable foods.
Photo: Jake Belcher

MIT News Office

December 3, 2023

Unlocking the secrets of natural materials

Professor Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies with uses “from lab to fork,” including helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods.

MIT geologists have found that tectonic activity gives rise to smectite, a type of clay that can sequester a surprising amount of organic carbon within its microscopic folds (shown here), over millions of years.
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MIT News Office

November 30, 2023

A mineral produced by plate tectonics has a global cooling effect, study finds

An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years.

Sossina Haile ’86, PhD ’92, a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, gives the fall 2023 Wulff Lecture at MIT. She discussed an innovative way of transporting hydrogen: in ammonia.
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MIT News Office

November 27, 2023

A green hydrogen innovation for clean energy

Fall 2023 Wulff Lecture speaker Sossina Haile ’86, PhD ’92 uses ammonia and a “superprotonic” material for efficient and eco-friendly energy generation.

Through teaching, research, and coalition building, professor of materials science and engineering Elsa Olivetti’s lifelong passion for sustainability bolters MIT’s efforts to combat climate change.
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MIT News Office

November 21, 2023

Merging science and systems thinking to make materials more sustainable

Passionate about materials science “from the atom to the system,” Elsa Olivetti brings a holistic approach to sustainability to her teaching, research, and coalition-building.