The Big Picture
MIT experts outline issues, offer hope for climate action
Spring 2021
Climate change presents a challenge like no other, truly daunting in its complexity. At MIT, faculty, students, and staff are working to address the planet’s mounting issues in ways both large and small. Together, they hope to protect Earth.
Keeping It Cool
Doctoral student helps architects design buildings to suit the climate and save energy
Climate Landscape
MIT’s engineers take on a defining challenge
A Business Lens for Sustainability
Aggregate Confusion Project targets better ways to judge corporate behavior
Latest stories
Fortifying Crops for Climate Change
J-WAFS project aims to help food grains weather drought
Popular stories
Why Care About Climate Change?
John Sterman helps people experience impacts of action and inaction
Undergrad’s Research Targets Climate
Ava Waitz ’21 works on transparent solar cells, emissions modeling
Discovery Science
To Fuel the Future, a Look Back
An excerpt from Jump-Starting America
ET Genome
Genetic testing for life on Mars
Health of the Planet
The Human Scale of Climate Change
Janelle Knox-Hayes explores link between values, sustainable practices
Low-Carbon, Locally
ESI program Here and Real connects MIT climate research to communities
Hot Market
Climate- and sustainability-focused companies with MIT connections have their sights set on global impact
Economics and Well-Being
Class gives students frameworks to improve decision making
Human Health
Engineering Disease Fighters
With synthetic biology and AI, Jim Collins takes on this pandemic—and the next
The Art and Science of Staying Grounded
Mindy Bishop finds connections between artificial intelligence, sustainable energy, and patient care
Modeling a Visionary Future
Hyodong “Hyo” Lee builds brain-inspired neural networks to help machines see like humans
A Passion for Positive Change
Brittny Chong seeks social action through immersive technologies and data analytics
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Opening for Innovation
2020 marks the unveiling of two new MIT buildings in Kendall Square
From Idea to Execution
Trust Center helps myriad startups make the leap
A Helping Hand
MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem boosts sensor tech startup
From Vision to World Wide Web
An excerpt from Nick Montfort’s The Future
Teaching Learning and Living
Teaching Lab Steps Up During Pandemic
CMS Professor Justin Reich, colleagues help guide schools in remote learning
Computing College Forms Bit by Bit
Schwarzman College leadership discuss MIT’s mission to harness tech advances for good
A Half-Century of Community Learning
Socializing, scholarship come together in Experimental Study Group