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Powering up for a pivotal moment

From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

October 19, 2026 MITEI

Elon Musk's Hyperloop Idea for Sonic Tubular Travel Gets Real

Companies and college students are testing ways to move people between cities by shooting them through giant tubes. Sound crazy?

February 23, 2016 In the media National Geographic

Terrascope recognized by National Academy of Engineering

Freshman learning community recognized as an Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education

February 23, 2016 MITEI MIT News

Four MIT faculty win Presidential Early Career Awards

Buie, Buonassisi, Tisdale, and Tye honored with the U.S. government's highest award for young scientists and engineers

February 23, 2016 MITEI MIT News

MIT lab opens 10 contests on climate change

Proposals submitted will help crowdsource the makings of national and global climate action plans

February 22, 2016 MITEI Climate CoLab

For the First Time Chemists Measure the Energy of a Chemical Reaction's Transition State

The ability to quantify the elusive moment when entities in a reaction convert "is important wherever chemistry is important," researchers say

February 19, 2016 In the media Scientific American

Energy innovation needs new private-sector push

Successful innovation must address technologies from creation to deployment

February 18, 2016 In the media BloombergView

Decision-Making for a Low-Carbon Future

Stanford’s Sally Benson talks energy systems analysis at MIT

February 16, 2016 MITEI MITEI Office of Communications

Amelia Trainer: Structuring improved simulations for reactor physics

MIT sophomore is passionate about coding projects that model neutron behavior inside nuclear reactors

February 12, 2016 MITEI MIT News

Study: Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels?

History predicts that fossil fuel consumption will continue to grow without aggressive efforts to price carbon and improve clean energy technologies

February 12, 2016 In the media Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago

Four Questions with Ghasideh Pourhashem, C3E Women in Clean Energy Poster Session Presenter

Drexel University student presented her poster "Environmental and economic analysis of alternative applications of byproduct of bio-ethanol production” at C3E 2013.

February 11, 2016 MITEI MITEI Office of Communications