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A lasting—and valuable—legacy
MIT News
Betar Gallant (Mechanical Engineering) harnesses electrochemistry to develop new sustainable technologies, including systems that capture carbon dioxide emissions and produce higher-energy rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
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MIT students contribute to success of historic fusion experiment
MIT News
MIT students in the Plasma Science and Fusion Center’s High-Energy-Density Physics (HEPD) group are part of large team that achieved fusion ignition for the first time in a laboratory. For more than a decade, MIT’s HEPD group has contributed to the success of the ignition program at the National Ignition Facility by providing and using a dozen diagnostics, implemented by MIT PhD students and staff, which have been critical for assessing the performance of an implosion.
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MIT accelerates efforts on path to carbon reduction goals
MIT News
Under its “Fast Forward” climate action plan, MIT has set a goal of eliminating direct emissions from its campus by 2050 and a near-term milestone of achieving net-zero emissions by 2026. As part of these efforts, the Institute is making its campus buildings dramatically more energy efficient, transitioning to electric vehicles, and enabling large-scale renewable energy projects, among other strategies.
Related: “3Q: How MIT is working to reduce carbon emissions on our campus” — MIT News, September 12, 2022
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Enabling structures to generate their own clean energy
Slice of MIT / MIT Technology Review
Deborah Chung PhD ’77, a materials scientist and pioneer in multifunctional structural materials, invented “smart concrete” in the 1990’s. Now, she is trying to find a way to get structural materials like steel to generate electricity without the use of any energy-producing device.
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High-energy and hungry for the hardest problems
MIT News
Anne White (Nuclear Science and Engineering), a pioneer in fusion physics and climate change leader at MIT, wants to “find ways to save the world with nuclear.”
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Audio article: "Porous materials designed to trap molecules"
Energy Reads / MITEI
Listen to hand-picked audio articles covering the latest in energy from MIT. In this episode we read "Porous materials designed to trap molecules,” which highlights work from MIT researchers who have demonstrated a new approach to making porous materials called zeolites designed to capture molecules for specific uses, including cleaning up exhaust gases from trucks.
Listen on our website or your favorite podcast app, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.
 Listen.
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Survey to improve energy education
The Energy Minor Oversight Committee is working to improve energy education at MIT. The committee welcomes feedback from MIT alumni and professionals in the energy industry to ensure that future MIT undergrads have the best energy education possible in the Energy Studies Minor.
The survey should take less than 5 minutes. Please complete by September 20.
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Fall MITx courses from MITEI
Open now for enrollment
Energy Economics and Policy will be offered September 13 – December 6, 2022. In this course, students learn the economic principles and characteristics of various interrelated energy markets. Students will study policy options and market mechanisms to drive more sustainable and equitable energy access.
Register.
Sustainable Energy will be offered September 13 – December 13, 2022. In this course, students learn how to critically analyze modern energy technologies from engineering and socio-political perspectives, and gain the skills necessary to help the world meet rising energy demand while reducing carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.
Register.
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Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Applications due: Monday, October 31, 5:00 pm PDT
The goal of the Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship is to bring together the brightest minds in energy from around the world to develop knowledge necessary to realize the vision of sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all people. Fellows will work with at least two faculty members from different academic departments and interact with other fellows across the energy research spectrum: from science and engineering to policy and economics.
Apply by Monday, October 31, 5:00 pm PDT.
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Recruit at the MIT Energy and Climate Career Fair
Friday, October 21, 11:00 am-2:00 pm, W20-202
The MITEC Career Fair is a unique advertising and recruiting opportunity, where you can meet students from across MIT as well as the wider Boston community. If your energy company is interested in participating in the event, please fill out the following form. If you’d like to discuss further, please contact Shomik Verma.
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NASA's Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy competition
Through its Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy (aka: Blue Skies) competition, NASA seeks to investigate alternative aviation energy sources that, if developed, could be part of the solution to aviation's climate impacts. The collegiate-level competition asks teams to conceptualize the source-to-flight lifecycle of one potential clean energy source of the 2050s, in terms of feasibility, viability, and climate impact. Blue Skies expands engagement between universities and NASA’s University Innovation Project with the intent to reach as many college students as possible.
Submissions from ANY and ALL academic levels (i.e., first year, sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate) and majors are highly encouraged and anticipated. The purpose of this competition is to encourage diverse, multi-disciplinary teams of college students to explore and contribute unique systems-level ideas and analysis of the source-to-flight lifecycle of future zero-emissions aviation propulsion energy sources.
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MITEI–Commonwealth Fusion Systems Program Manager
MITEI and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) are seeking a program manager to lead operations and provide support to the program director of the MITEI/CFS program. The principal responsibility will be to organize, coordinate, and streamline the project management of a broad portfolio of concurrently running research projects at MIT.
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MITEI Development Officer
MITEI is looking for a development officer to support its mission, to work closely with the director and executive director, to engage with current donors and funders, and to grow MITEI’s base of support.
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Electrons are just dazzling—they power so much of our everyday world, and are the key to a renewable future."
— Betar Gallant, associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical Engineering, MIT |
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