News + Impact - MIT EAPS

A photo of a man in religious attire leaning against a telescope.

Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens: Guy Consolmagno ’74, SM ’75 profiled in the New Yorker

July 28, 2025

Categories: Alumni, In the Media

Four from EAPS earn chaired professorships

July 14, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Tom Herring to chair EAPS Program in Geophysics

July 13, 2025

Categories: Community

Scientific American: A Thought Experiment Reveals the Fingerprints of Climate Change Came Early

July 4, 2025

Categories: Health of the Planet, In the Media

Antarctica as seen from space, with coloring depicting ozone recovery.

Tracing persistent ozone-depleting emissions to their source

July 3, 2025

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

Satellite view of the Atlantic Ocean and neighboring continents with colored swirls superimposed over the ocean indicating distribution of Synechococcus phytoplankton.

NASA StoryMap: MIT Darwin Project ecosystem model explores biogeography of microbial environments

July 2, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Life + Environments, Research

Portraits of Kristin Bergmann and William Frank

Kristin Bergmann and William Frank promoted

July 01, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A river reef on Tetiaroa.

Island rivers carve passageways through coral reefs

June 20, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

Three MIT PhD graduates in caps and robes pose with their diplomas and new doctoral hoods.

Commencement 2025 Roundup: Degrees Earned

June 20, 2025

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

Researchers taking samples from a small pool of water.

When Earth iced over, early life may have sheltered in meltwater ponds

June 19, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

John Fernandez gesturing with his hands as he gives a presentation.

After more than a decade of successes, ESI’s work will spread out across the Institute

June 13, 2025

Categories: Community

“Each of us holds a piece of the solution” – building momentum for the Climate Project at MIT

June 10, 2025

Categories: Community

Nikos Trichakis, Caspar Hare, Annaliese Meyer, Sally Kornbluth, Dan Huttenlocher, and Asu Ozdaglar stand in a row in front of a light wooden wall. Meyer holds a colorful glass award.

Marine microbe thesis work inspires vision of healthcare future — and computing prize

June 9, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

Looking down toward a guitarist and banjo player from the top of the bleachers filled with seated guests in the Building 55 atrium during the EAPS commencement reception.

Scenes from EAPS Commencement 2025

June 06, 2025

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

Anthony Wong stands at a research poster while explaining it to another person.

3Q’s: Investigating environmental impacts of alternative fuel usage

June 3, 2025

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

Seven undergraduates gathered wearing commencement caps and gowns under a tent.

Meet the EAPS Majors: Class of 2025

May 30, 2025

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

Ananda Santos Figueiredo seated at a table in a classroom, with a pug sitting in the chair next to her.

Meet Ananda Figueiredo ’25: Shaping the future through systems thinking

May 27, 2025

Categories: Community, Profile, Students + Postdocs

The crater-covered far side of the moon.

Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answer

May 23, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Photo of the sun peeking through orange smoggy air over a hillside, with Los Angeles in the background.

Study: Climate change may make it harder to reduce smog in some regions

May 22, 2025

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

A microscopic image of SAR11, a type of pelagibacterales, which look like worms.

New Study Illuminates Invisible Architects of the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle

May 22, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs