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MIT energy faculty who contributed to a special report on the future of energy published in the Economist on June 21, 2008 are Ernie Moniz, Gerd Ceder, Jeff Tester, Ely Sachs, Greg Stephanopolous, Angela Belcher and Mujid Kazimi.
Bulovic wins EECS "Best Instructor" Award. — MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member Vladimir Bulovic won the HKN Best Instructor of the Year Award.
Ghoniem to receive $10M KAUST award — Ahmed F. Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive a $10 million, five-year award from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
At MIT, the Greening of Young Minds —
Newsweek, by Daniel McGinn, May 12, 2008
"It's a Monday night at MIT, just a few weeks before final exams. Grad students Tegin Teich and Todd Schenk could be studying or relaxing. Instead, they're hustling through a maze of basement hallways in search of notorious energy hogs: vending machines. … Trouble is, MIT isn't exactly sure where all its vending machines are located, or which ones already have the devices installed. So tonight it's enlisted the MIT Energy Club to help figure it out."
Green MIT
WBUR Here & Now
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world's leading engineering schools, has an electric bill of one million dollars a week. We talked to students to find out how they're working to reduce the university's electric bill and carbon footprint. Our guest is Jason Jay, co-founder of the MIT Generator, a coalition of student groups whose projects are greening the campus.
MIT Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Fuel Engineering János Miklós Beér was recently awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, which was recommended by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Power Industries. He was presented with the award by the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Szilveszter Vizi, at a ceremony at the academy in Budapest, Hungary, on March 17. The citation of the award mentions Beér's support of Hungarian higher education and research, among his other lifelong work.
