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The entire first floor of Hayden Library is accessible 24/7 for current MIT students, faculty, and staff.
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September 7, 2021

Renovated Hayden Library and courtyard open to the MIT community

Transformational projects bring inclusive, welcoming spaces to the MIT campus.

This diagram illustrates the new process for enhancing reaction rates in an electrocatalytic process. The catalyst layer, made of gold or platinum, is shown as gray spheres at the bottom, and the material to be catalyzed is shown a...

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September 7, 2021

Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals

A new approach increases the efficiency of chemical reactions that are key to many industrial processes.

Ipek Bensu Manav (right) chats with Hessam AzariJafari, her colleague at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub. During her time at CSHub, Manav has placed engineering in its social and political contexts and built new connections in th...

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September 2, 2021

Mitigating hazards with vulnerability in mind

To mitigate natural hazards equitably, PhD candidate Ipek Bensu Manav of the MIT CSHub is incorporating social vulnerability into resilience engineering and hazard recovery.

MIT faculty who received 2021 J-WAFS Solutions grants include (top row, left to right) Daniel Frey, Leon Glicksman, Eric Verploegen; (bottom row, left to right) Greg Stephanopoulos, Anthony J. Sinskey, and Jongyoon Han.

MIT News Office

September 2, 2021

J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies

This year’s projects address mobile evaporative vegetable preservation, portable water filtration, and dairy waste reduction.

MIT researchers find that hydrogen-fired power generation can be a more cost-effective alternative to lithium-ion batteries for peaking operations on a power grid.

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August 31, 2021

Making the case for hydrogen in a zero-carbon economy

Analyzing California’s power system, MITEI researchers show that hydrogen-generated electricity is a cost-competitive candidate for backing up wind and solar.

MIT now offers over 120 undergraduate classes related to climate change and sustainability, according to the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative — a sign of growing student and faculty interest in the environmental impacts o...

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August 24, 2021

Climate and sustainability classes expand at MIT

MIT offers over 120 undergraduate classes related to sustainability, a sign of growing student and faculty interest in the environmental impacts of their fields.

By selecting optimal paving materials, it may be possible to cut emissions in Boston by up to 3 percent over 50 years.
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MIT News Office

August 22, 2021

Countering climate change with cool pavements

Researchers affiliated with the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub find that paving material selection could mitigate extreme heat and greenhouse gas emissions.

The main source of shipping emissions is the combustion of heavy fuel oil in large diesel engines, which disperses pollutants into the air over coastal areas.

MIT News Office

August 17, 2021

Smarter regulation of global shipping emissions could improve air quality and health outcomes

Study shows a need to identify domestic and international pollution sources in policy design.

PolyJoule is a Massachusetts-based startup co-founded by MIT professors Ian Hunter and Tim Swager, that’s looking to reinvent energy storage from a chemistry perspective.
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MIT News Office

August 16, 2021

Energy storage from a chemistry perspective

Eli Paster SM ’10, PhD '14 is the CEO of PolyJoule, a startup working to reinvent energy storage technology to increase efficiency and reduce costs.