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116 results
2025
Incentive design to promote long-term adoption of sustainable practices by smallholder farmers in India
Y. Karen Zheng, Sloan School of Management
Affordable, accurate, detailed climate projections for climate-resilient agriculture in India
Sai Ravela, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Director of the MIT Earth Signals and Systems Group
Anamitra Saha, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Earth Signals and Systems Group
Food security in Africa through microbiome engineering
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tami Lieberman, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute for Medical Science and Engineering
Darcy McRose
Tavneet Suri, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sixian You, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2024
High-efficiency atmospheric water harvesting enabled by vibrational actuation
Svetlana Boriskina, Mechanical Engineering Department
Empowering Indigenous communities: A framework for climate resilience and migration planning in La Guajira, Colombia
Sarah Williams, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Eran Ben - Joseph, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Gabriella Carolini, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Janelle Knox-Hayes, Department of Urban Studies & Planning
National crop type maps of India using deep learning and street view imagery
Sherrie Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Data, Systems, and Society
Protecting drinking water from widespread organic contaminants using engineered soil bacteria
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
Kate Brown, Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Food security in Africa under a changing climate – Navigating the energy and agricultural transition to net zero
Jennifer Morris, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Energy Initiative
Adam Schlosser, Center for Global Change Science, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Kenneth Strzepek, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Center for Global Change Science
Predictive activity coefficient and diffusion models for transport in multicomponent brines
John H. Lienhard V
Denitrifying capsules to clean water sources
Andrew Babbin, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
The role of livestock in climate change: Holistic greenhouse gas assessments and implications for human diets
César Terrer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Smart buckets: Measuring water access in rural India
Gokul Sampath, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Jonathan Bessette, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2023
Advancing technology development to improve microbiome processes for controlling harmful bacteria blooms in aquaculture algae feed production
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Otto X. Cordero, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Robert Vincent, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Sea Grant
Persistent monitoring of nitrogen waste products in the environment
Rajeev Ram, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Development of transduction methods for the detection of arsenic in water
Alexander Radosevich, Department of Chemistry
Timothy Swager, Department of Chemistry
Nanoscale materials for removal of “forever chemicals”
Carlos Portela, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering
Chemo-electrophilic interfaces for bacterial disinfection in wastewater
Kripa Varanasi, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Angela Belcher, Department of Biological Engineering
Using secondary metabolites to manage legacy phosphorus
Darcy McRose
Multiplexed motion-amplified microbead sensors for rapid measurement and monitoring of trace contaminants in water
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
PFAS test kits based on 2D conductive metal-organic frameworks
Aristide Gumyusenge, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Optimizing cereal crop plant architecture during an era of high atmospheric CO2
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Automated counting of migrating salmon for conservation and fisheries management in the Pacific Northwest
Sara Beery, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of AI and Decision Making, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Novel spectrofluorometer for online early detection of harmful algal blooms
Andrew J. Whittle, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fabio Duarte, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Senseable City Lab and MIT Center for Real Estate
Solid-state scrap processing: A pathway to drastically reduce water consumption in steelmaking
Cem Tasan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering