A major MIT strength is the willingness of students and faculty to cross disciplinary boundaries while seeking solutions to complex problems. The environment represents an area where interdisciplinary efforts are vital to progress. Here is a look at some of the larger entities that draw significantly from two or more fields in their quest for answers to pressing environmental questions.

• Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
• Center for Environmental Health Sciences
• Center for Global Change Science
• Center for International Studies
• The Earth System Initiative
• Laboratory For Energy and the Environment
• Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
• Lincoln Laboratory
• Materials Processing Center
• Microsystems Technology Laboratories
• MIT-Woods Hole Joint Program
• Research Laboratory of Electronics
• Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
• Technology and Development Program
• Technology and Policy Program (TPP)