Rayna Higuchi ’20 and CEE research scientist Dr. Kunal Kupwade-Patil recently had research published in the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering journal that shows when combined, waste products from food production and power production waste can replace high-energy-input, hazardous cement. Higuchi […]
By Amy Vogel ’20 In the past two months that I’ve spent in Tel Aviv through MISTI Israel, I’ve had the unique opportunity to progress and grow alongside a company that’s doing the same. Since I’ve […]
Professor Markus Buehler and members from his Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics published a paper in ACS Nano that highlights their perspective on the manufacturing of hierarchical nanostructured materials from sustainable sources, assembly techniques, and […]
On August 8, high school and middle school students from around the Boston area presented four research posters at a Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) poster event. The students are working with Concord Middle School teacher, Doug […]
The MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Sciences and Engineering is celebrating its 50th year. To honor the program, celebrations will be held on Thursday, September 27 at MIT and on Friday, September 28 […]
Professor Charlie Harvey and Donald and Martha Harleman Professor Heidi Nepf were newly elected as 2018 AGU Fellows. Awarded to only 0.1% of members a year, AGU Fellows are AGU members whose “visionary leadership and scientific […]
Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows that China’s most populous and agriculturally important region could face deadly heat waves unless significant measures are taken at the global scale to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigate climate […]
Assistant Professor Otto Cordero and researchers from his lab published new research that suggests that ecological interactions between bacteria on particles’ surfaces can impact the rates of carbon turnover in the ocean. The results were published […]
Institute Professor Penny Chisholm presented a TED Talk on “the tiny creature that secretly powers the planet,” prochlorococcus. Watch here. […]
By Samantha D’Alonzo ’21 Our morning started with a 6:30am alarm, layers of sunscreen, and lots and lots of bug spray – all in preparation for truffle hunting in the Aramengo woods! After a quick breakfast, […]
By Amy Vogel ’20 After three great months living it up in Haifa at the Technion, I moved to Israel’s The-City-That-Never-Sleeps to live the modern-day high-tech Tel Aviv dream (well, for two months). Selfie on the […]
Graduate student Janelle Heslop was one of twenty students to be elected into the Switzer Fellowship Network. The Switzer Fellowship Program is a one-year fellowship for accomplished graduate students in New England and California with career […]
By Samantha D’Alonzo ’21 After a free day yesterday, the ONE-MA^3 group reunited in Turin this morning. We headed down to Venaria Reale. Venaria Reale is home to a 17th century complex comprising the Palace of […]
By Samantha D’Alonzo ’21 After several hectic but enjoyable days of fieldwork, the group was given a much needed off day. Part of the group went ahead to Turin, while part of the group stayed behind […]
By Samantha D’Alonzo ’21 Our Friday in Turin started at the Valentino Palace, a complex rich with history and the current home of the ‘Politecnico di Torino’. The view from the second story of Valentino Palace […]
