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2026
Lyophilized single-tube argonaute-based multiplex detection of waterborne viruses
Stacy Springs, MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation, Food Supply Chain, Analytics and Sensing Initiative at MIT Sloan
Redox electrodialysis metathesis systems for high-yield water recovery
Fikile Brushett, Department of Chemical Engineering
Machine learning-guided ligand design of PolyMOC gels for PFAS removal
Heather J. Kulik, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry
Jeremiah Johnson, Department of Chemistry
Protecting community groundwater security: Network-based planning for data centers in water-stressed India
Saurabh Amin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Deepjyoti Deka, MIT Energy Initiative
Climate resilient greenhouses in water scarce and inarable environments
Evelyn Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Efficient multi-stage distillation
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
From agricultural waste to water risk - Nitrosamine formation in Laguna Lake (Philippines)
Desirée Plata, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Glen Andrew de Vera, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2025
Bench-top NMR with dynamic nuclear polarization for ultra-sensitive PFAS detection
Timothy Swager, Department of Chemistry
Robert Guy Griffin
Fluorine-free materials to trap and destroy PFAS
Jeremiah Johnson, Department of Chemistry
Global access to safe drinking water in resource-constrained and water scarce areas
Xuanhe Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
AI enabled spectral fingerprinting of pathogens for rapid food and water screening
Loza Tadesse, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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
Victoria Chen, Biological Engineering Department
Food security in Africa under a changing climate – Navigating the energy and agricultural transition to net zero
Jennifer Morris, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, MIT Energy Initiative
Adam Schlosser, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
Kenneth Strzepek, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, J-WAFS
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
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