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Topics: Health of the Planet

Left: Black and white photo of Norhan posing next to a rustic wooden wall. Right: Publicity photo of Hedy Lamarr for film Comrade X
Fall 2022

Norhan Bayomi, Inspired by Hollywood Icon, Takes on Climate Change

Entrepreneur-DJ pushes boundaries in technology, art

CREWSnet simulation map
Fall 2022

CREWSnet Project Forecasts a Climate Early Warning System for All

Climate Grand Challenges flagship project aims to empower underserved communities by providing tools they need to plan for the future

Elsa Olivetti PhD ’07 and Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli stand near trees on the MIT campus.
Fall 2022

Elsa Olivetti and Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli Develop New Recipes for New Materials

Faculty lead a collaboration that pairs computational design techniques with machine learning to invent and improve materials

Spring 2022

MIT’s Leventhal Center Explores How Communities Can Weather Relocation

Researchers address issues of the 150 million people worldwide who will be forced to uproot due to climate change in the next 30 years

An illustrating showing the steps needed to transform farm animal waste into viable byproducts.
Spring 2022

At MIT, Lessons from Space for Handling Waste

With support from J-WAFS, AeroAstro team applies systems thinking and analysis to vital recycling issue

Spring 2022

Tata Center: 10 Years of Sustained Impact

MIT faculty and students target innovations for the developing world

Aerial view of a small field surrounded by trees.
Spring 2022

In Support of the Health of the Planet

MIT donors bolster Climate Grand Challenges, MITEI, and the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

A photograph of India Gate in Dehli, India.
Fall 2021

TPP Initiative Links Research, Policy

Broad-based goal is informed decision making

Professors Peter Stone and Paola Malanotte- Rizzoli smile for a photo in front of windows overlooking Boston.
Fall 2021

Leaders in Climate Science Continue MIT Legacy with Professorship

Professors Peter H. Stone and Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli

Researchers are using the lab-friendly grass Brachypodium—a good analog for classic cereal grains—to understand how intermittent drought affects plants at a molecular level. Image: Wikimedia Commons
Spring 2021

Fortifying Crops for Climate Change

J-WAFS project aims to help food grains weather drought

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