News & Events

May 24, 2012

MIT News Office: Mujid Kazimi, of nuclear science and engineering, wins Kuwait Prize
Honored for contributions to nuclear power technology

May 23, 2012
MIT News Office: No crystal ball for natural gas
Traditionally, oil prices have been used to gauge the natural gas market; but new research shows that the future of what is currently a cheap fuel is really anyone's guess.

May 21, 2012
MIT News Office: Oxygen-separation membranes could aid in CO2 reduction
Ceramic membranes may reduce carbon dioxide emissions from gas and coal-fired powerplants.

May 21, 2012
MIT News Office: Karnik, Parra win DOE Early Career Research Program awards
Department of Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Rohit Karnik and Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Felix Parra have been awarded Early Career Research Program grants by the Department of Energy (DOE).

May 16, 2012
MIT News Office: L. Rafael Reif selected as MIT’s 17th president
As provost since 2005, the president-elect has inspired innovation and played a critical role in the financial stewardship of the Institute.

May 14, 2012
MIT News Office: In search of new technologies
Marin Soljacic's work to alter behavior of light could lead to more efficient ways of capturing energy.

May 12, 2012
MIT News Office: Dresselhaus receives Fermi Award
Institute Professor Emerita Mildred Dresselhaus visited the White House on Monday, May 7, to receive the Enrico Fermi Award — one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government.

April 27, 2012
MIT News Office: Sara Ferry: A new generation works to fulfill the promise of nuclear energy

April 26, 2012
U.S. Department of Energy and the MIT Energy Initiative Announce a Women in Clean Energy Program for the United States
At the Third Clean Energy Ministerial in London today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a three-part plan to help implement the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment initiative or “C3E” – a Ministerial program aimed at attracting more women to clean energy careers and supporting their advancement into leadership positions. This new program, pursued in partnership with the MIT Energy Initiative, is designed to translate the goals of C3E into concrete, meaningful action in the United States.

April 24, 2012
MIT News Office: New material shares many of graphene's unusual properties
Thin films of bismuth-antimony have potential for new semiconductor chips, thermoelectric devices.

April 23, 2012
MIT News Office: Our gasoline-free future and how to get there
Toyota’s Tom Stricker shares his view with the MIT community.

April 23, 2012
MIT News Office: Taking an innovative approach to battery design

April 23, 2012
MIT News Office: Facing the facts about our changing climate
MIT researchers join Boston Globe panel in weighing climate risks and resolutions

April 18, 2012
MIT News Office: Studying the effects of coconuts being made into biofuel
Divya Agarwal travels to Fiji as part of an independent study project.

April 18, 2012
Time.com: Donald Sadoway, MIT energy engineer makes the TIME 100 List of most influential people in the world

April 17, 2012
The Washington Post: 'Clean cookstoves' draw support, but they may not improve indoor air quality
This article sources a paper from the MITEI seed fund project, The Health Consequences of Energy Consumption in India, funded in spring 2008.

April 12, 2012
MIT News Office: New method to prevent undersea ice clogs

April 11, 2012
MIT News Office: Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert CO2

April 11, 2012
Richard K. Lester: Trying to change the climate
via MIT ILP
Richard K. Lester spends a good deal of his energy thinking about energy. One focus is how to control carbon emissions and limit the adverse consequences of climate change. For that to happen, low-carbon energy alternatives need to be developed, one of them being nuclear power.

April 9, 2012
MIT News Office: Clean energy could lead to scarce materials
Rising demand for wind turbines and electric vehicles could strain supplies of some rare earth metals.

April 1, 2012
MIT News Office: The heat is on
New study of MIT buildings suggests additional approaches to energy efficiency

March 27, 2012
MIT News Office: A new dimension for solar energy
Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area.

March 21, 2012
MIT New Office: Greenhouse gas can find a home underground
New MIT analysis shows there’s enough room to safely store at least a century’s worth of U.S. fossil fuel emissions.

March 21, 2012
MIT News Office: Big innovations for uncertain times
Seventh annual MIT Energy Conference features bold new technologies in the face of an uncertain economy.

March 12, 2012
Report release: Managing Large-scale Penetration of Intermittent Renewables

March 9, 2012
MIT News Office: MIT student inventor Miles C. Barr receives Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Prize awarded for work developed with the support of the eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center

March 7, 2012
MIT News Office: MIT students tackle efficiency barriers at the Better Buildings Case Competition
The MIT student team picked up awards for Most Innovative and Best Proposal for their work on two of the four case studies.

March 5, 2012
MIT News Office: Fuel for thought
Economist Christopher Knittel uncovers surprising facts about the cars we drive — and about the price of gas.

February 23, 2012
Knight Fellows offer tips on tackling energy/climate science beat
Times are tough for science reporters, perhaps especially for those covering the energy and climate science beat. In a January 31st panel, MIT’s Knight Science Journalism fellows chronicled the challenges of negotiating a terrain where, in the words of Knight Fellowship Director Philip J. Hilts, “everything is so toxic and partisan.”

February 23, 2012
MIT News Office: Making droplets drop faster
New nanopatterned surfaces could improve the efficiency of powerplants and desalination systems.

February 23, 2012
Power trip
March MIT Europe energy conference in Rome explores promising sustainable energy sources.

February 14, 2012
MIT News Office: Liquid batteries could level the load

February 8, 2012
MIT News Office: Revealing how a battery material works

February 7, 2012
MIT News Office: New tool for analyzing solar-cell materials

February 6, 2012
MIT News Office: Turning heat into power
A new kind of high-temperature photonic crystal could someday power everything from smartphones to spacecraft.

February 6, 2012
MIT News Office: Olesnavage wins 2012 Dean A. Horn Award
Undergraduate lays the groundwork for detection of submarine groundwater discharge in Cyprus.

February 3, 2012
MIT News Office: Harnessing nature's solar cells
Photovoltaic panels made from plant material could become a cheap, easy alternative to traditional solar cells.

February 2, 2012
MIT News Office: Nuclear security takes its place in NSE’s curriculum

February 2, 2012
MIT News Office: EPA air chief talks energy, environment with MIT experts

February 1, 2012
Scenes from undergraduate research

January 31, 2012
The microgrid
A small-scale, flexible, reliable source of electricity

January 26, 2012
MIT to test energy-saving building projects for DOE
MIT is one of just 24 building owners and projects nationwide selected to participate in a $21 million US Department of Energy (DOE) initiative to accelerate the adoption of cost-effective energy-saving measures in commercial buildings.

January 26, 2012
MIT News Office: Shaping molecules and solar panels Go to MIT News Office site
Materials scientist explores new possibilities in topics from molecules to rooftop solar panels.

January 19, 2012
MIT News Office: David White, founding director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, dies at 89 Go to MIT News Office site
David Calvin White, founding director of the MIT Energy Laboratory and a longtime faculty member, died on Jan. 11. He was 89.

January 19, 2012
Seminar challenges with systems approach to climate change
In the fall of 2010, Leah Stokes walked into Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation (ESD.124) on the first day the graduate seminar was offered. “The class seemed perfect for me,” says this Ph.D. student in Environmental Policy and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, “so I had to take it. I ended up loving it.” While no novice to the complex questions involved in transforming a carbon-centric world, Stokes, a 2010-2011 Siemens Energy Fellow, credits ESD.124 instructor Jessika Trancik, Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems, with “getting me thinking in a different way.”

January 12, 2012
A study in green building on campus
A new MIT analysis shows that those regulations—which mandate increasing fuel economy in new cars and, more recently, the gradual phasing in of biofuels—are not the most cost-effective way to reduce gasoline use.

January 10, 2012
US passenger cars
Designing policies to curb fuel use, GHG emissions.

January 3, 2012
MIT News Office: A shale gas revolution?

January 5, 2012
Christopher R. Knittel named first energy faculty chair at MIT

December 22, 2011
Solar cells printed on paper
Fold them, ship them, install them with ease.

December 22, 2011
MIT News Office: How to kick-start new energy technologies
Three-year study produces proposals for boosting energy innovation to meet growing demand, curb global warming.

December 20, 2011
Five-year effort by Campus Energy Task Force saves MIT millions of dollars, kilowatt-hours

December 14, 2011
Reflections on US energy challenges
A message from George P. Shultz

December 13, 2011
Energy Education Task Force marks five-year surge in energy focused offerings

December 6, 2011
MIT News Office: Carbon capture? Go for the source.
New analysis shows pulling CO2 from the air would not be cost-effective in the foreseeable future.

December 6, 2011
Nobel laureate: Long path to economic renewal, but energy innovation could help

December 6, 2011
EVP Israel Ruiz co-chairs campus energy task force

December 5, 2011
MIT News Office: With changes, the grid can take it
MIT report shows that with new policies, U.S. electric grid could handle expected influx of electric cars and wind and solar generation.

December 1, 2011
MIT News Office: Chu: New materials could be transformative
Citing historical examples, U.S. secretary of energy argues that the nation can still regain its manufacturing leadership.

November 30, 2011
Student project identifies improvements for campus PVs

November 16, 2011
Improving Regulatory Performance: Lessons from the United Kingdom
Statement of Michael Greenstone (3M Professor of Environmental Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the Hamilton Project, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution) presented to the Senate Budget Committee Task Force on Government Performance.

November 16, 2011
Kesavan Yogeswaran: Harnessing power electronics to green energy

November 15, 2011
Quadrennial Energy and Technology Reviews
Testimony of Ernest J. Moniz before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

November 9, 2011
Major global increase in energy use, emissions predicted at MITEI colloquium

November 3, 2011
First-Of-Its-Kind Search Engine Will Speed Materials Research
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) jointly launched today a groundbreaking new online tool called the Materials Project, which operates like a “Google” of material properties, enabling scientists and engineers from universities, national laboratories and private industry to accelerate the development of new materials, including critical materials

November 2 , 2011
John Deutch: The World's 7 Most Powerful People In Energy @Forbes.com

November 1, 2011
Undergraduate Energy Ingenuity
Energy poster session showcases diverse energy projects

November 1, 2011
Trends In Supply, Demand Indicate Expanding Role For Gas In U.S. Energy Mix
Reproduced for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with permission from The American Oil & Gas Reporter

October 28, 2011
MIT News Office: ‘Conserve, conserve, conserve’
A megawatt saved is better than a megawatt made, and there are plenty of ways to save energy without sacrifice.

October 27, 2011
MIT News Office: Harnessing the Earth, the atom and the leaf
There are many sources that can make a contribution to our energy supply, but likely not at a major scale in the near future.

October 26, 2011
MIT News Office: Shining brightly
Vast amounts of solar energy radiate to the Earth constantly, but tapping that energy cost-effectively remains a challenge.

October 25, 2011
MIT News Office: Where the wind blows
How far can wind power go toward reducing global carbon emissions from electricity production?

October 24, 2011
MIT News Office: What can make a dent?
Given the enormous scale of worldwide energy use, there are limited options for achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.