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Computing our climate future
On Monday, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world as...
Looking forward to forecast the risks of a changing climate
On April 11, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world...
Outstanding at AGU 2021
Two EAPS graduate students received the award for their 2021 presentations at the AGU fall conference Congratulations to Ellen Lalk and Craig Martin who have been given the Outstanding Student...
Teaching with digital technology awards 2022
Now in its seventh year, the Teaching with Digital Technology Awards are student-nominated awards for instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT. The...
Venice in Boston
When Professor Emeritus Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science (EAPS) at MIT was asked to be a consultant for a new exhibit at the Boston...
NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission carrying MIT student experiment wins Space Foundation award
The Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for space exploration and space-inspired industries, has awarded NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer...
3 Questions: Understanding the Haiti earthquakes
On Aug. 14, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti. The largest earthquake in the region since 2010, the disaster left at least 2,000 people dead, 12,000 people injured, and nearly...
MIT makes strides on climate action plan
Two recent online events related to MIT’s ambitious new climate action plan highlighted several areas of progress, including uses of the campus as a real-life testbed for climate impact research,...
Rover images confirm Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake
The first scientific analysis of images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover has now confirmed that Mars’ Jezero crater — which today is a dry, wind-eroded depression — was once a...
Documentary short, “The Uprising,” showcases women in science who pressed for equal rights at MIT in the 1990s
The MIT Press today announced the digital release of “The Uprising,” a documentary short about the unprecedented behind-the-scenes effort that amassed irrefutable evidence of differential treatment of men and women...