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              For the last six years, Roots Studio has helped rural communities preserve their culture and make a living by licensing their art.
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April 8, 2022

Bridging communities to reimagine cultural preservation

Roots Studio, founded by Rebecca Hui SM ’17, helps rural communities license their art to brands around the world.

              Forging cross-disciplinary ties and bringing creative people together around a common goal have proven valuable skills as Richard Lester has stepped into positions of ever-greater responsibility at the Institute, including his curren...
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April 8, 2022

Leveraging science and technology against the world’s top problems

From nuclear proliferation to climate change, Richard K. Lester taps research talent to map a path toward a sustainable planet.

               “Hydropower is a more-than-hundred-year-old technology, and plants are already built up north,” says Emil Dimanchev SM ’18. “We might not need to build something new. We might just need to use those plants differently or to ...
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April 8, 2022

New England renewables + Canadian hydropower

Power flowing both ways across the border offers a pathway to clean electricity in 2050.

              “I’m from the '60s generation,” says Martin Greenwald. “We were very political and always asking, ‘what’s the relevance?’ We wanted our life’s work to mean something.”
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April 8, 2022

Finding the questions that guide MIT fusion research

After four decades at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Deputy Director Martin Greenwald embodies a brief history of fusion at MIT.

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April 7, 2022

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.

              At the 2022 MIT Energy Conference, the grand prize of $100,000 was awarded to a team called Ultropia, which is developing a combined clothes washer and drier that uses ultrasound instead of water for its cleaning.
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April 7, 2022

MIT Energy Conference focuses on climate’s toughest challenges

Annual student-led conference looks at prospects for decarbonizing some of the most difficult industries, including aviation and cement production.

              Researchers propose launching a fleet of oceangoing drones that would continuously monitor the flux of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and ocean, helping to inform next-generation visualizations and models of the global carbo...
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April 5, 2022

Ocean vital signs

MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, and how much more it can take.

              This figure presents two views of the chemical reactions for producing renewable fuels and chemicals. The top equation represents the conversion of the reactant (R) plus oxygen (O2) to a product (P) plus water (H2O). The diagram belo...
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April 4, 2022

Chemical reactions for the energy transition

Yogesh Surendranath and his team are bringing powerful techniques of electrochemistry to bear on the problem of designing catalysts for sustainable fuels.

              Calving front of the Upsala Glacier in Argentina. This glacier has been thinning and retreating at a rapid rate during the last decades — from 2006 to 2010, it receded 43.7 yards (40 meters) per year.
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March 30, 2022

Improving predictions of sea level rise for the next century

Brent Minchew leads two proposals to better understand glacial physics and predict sea-level rise as part of MIT's Climate Grand Challenges competition.

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