News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Commencement 2023 – Meet the EAPS Senior Class

June 5, 2023

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

Illustration has a black, rocky background, a large river forks off. A large greenfin darter is overlayed on the large river. The 3 forks each have smaller greenfin darters, each with a unique colorful glow.

River erosion can shape fish evolution, study suggests

May 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

MIT team wins weather forecasting competition second year in a row

May 18, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

3 cartoony green microbes ride a raft made of shell on a blue ocean. One microbe has a telescope to look ahead. A sign in the water says they are heading towards to the “Ocean.”

Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles

May 11, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

3 Questions: New Faculty Interview with Gaia Stucky de Quay

May 3, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

Becca Mastrola sits on a rock formation and smiles at the camera.

Unlocking Age-Old Secrets Set in Stone

May 2, 2023

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Alumni say Whiteman Fellowship Gave Them the Freedom to Explore

May 02, 2023

Categories: Alumni

Kate Zernike and Nancy Hopkins sit at a table addressing an audience in a classroom. A blackboard appears behind them.

The measuring tape heard round the world

May 1, 2023

Categories: Community, Events + Outreach

Several MIT students sitting at a narrow table collaborate in a classroom. Two have open laptops and there are snacks on the table.

Exploring new sides of climate and sustainability research

April 21, 2023

Categories: Students + Postdocs

Aerial view of MIT campus building entrance with Boston skyline in the distance.

3 Questions: New MIT major and its role in fighting climate change

April 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Community

The meteorite is dark black and shiny, with a rough texture. A chip of the meteorite is next to it, and a cube says “1 CM” on it.

A message to meteorite hunters: Put down your magnets!

April 20, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Aerial view shows a nuclear power plant, surrounded by lush green areas and water, with mountains in distance.

Study: Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution

April 10, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research

Outstanding at AGU 2022

April 10, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Greg Fournier stands in the woods, and there is a stream in background. There are fallen leaves and branches, and it is a cloudy day in early Spring.

Searching across deep time to understand “ecogenesis”

April 07, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Profile

An education in climate change

March 22, 2023

Categories: Events + Outreach

Q&A: Documenting life aboard a research vessel

March 22, 2023

Categories: Students + Postdocs

A map shows a large red splotch with blurry yellow border, the ozone hole, on top of the South Pole, on decorative background.

Study: Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer

March 8, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research

Aviva Intveld, leaning against a wall and smiling.

Aviva Intveld named 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar

March 3, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

A bright bluish light, which is debris, shoots across the black background, with light trailing behind it.

3Q: What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission

March 2, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Photo of a row of smokestacks. Two are belching smoke into a cloudy blue sky.

Improving health outcomes by targeting climate and air pollution simultaneously

February 23, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research