Buzzkill Profs: Hedge Funds Do Half as Well as You Think
It’s the dog days of summer, when college professors are supposed to be doing nothing but mimeographing their syllabus and mending the elbow patches on their blazers (or whatever it is that they do in the summer. But that’s not stopping some academics...
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Better estimates of worldwide mercury pollution
Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto land and sinks into oceans, mercury can be re-emitted back into the atmosphere repeatedly. This so-called...
READ MOREMIT researchers awarded grants from new Siebel Energy Institute
The Siebel Energy Institute marked its official launch this week with the announcement of 24 research grants nearing $1 million.
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MIT awarded Department of Energy grant to create & deploy energy-saving travel info & incentives system
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced that MIT researchers, along with colleagues from the University of Massachusetts (UMass), received a $3,990,128 grant to design, build, and trial a new system to incentivize people to...
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Graduating from destitution
The poor do not just lack money. They are also often short of basic know-how, the support of functioning institutions and faith in their own abilities. As a result, note Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Meet the badass woman who will put humans on Mars
MIT’s Dava Newman was sworn in as deputy administrator of NASA, the agency’s second-in-command, on May 15, 2015. Prof. Newman has accomplished a lot in her career, but she’s looking forward. Her sight is set on Mars.
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10 top women in economics
Esther Duflo named one of the top ten female economists by the World Economic Forum.
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How do you hack health care?
MIT doesn’t have a medical school, so it might seem unusual that so many students, researchers, and alumni are making a real-world impact in health care and medicine. But those two fields are rapidly evolving, and the need for MIT’s...
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Designing for flexibility
For nearly 50 years, Richard de Neufville has been working on ways to analyze, plan, and design complex engineering systems. A civil engineer by background, Professor de Neufville’s latest research focuses on a major paradigm shift in engineering in general.
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This cleantech expert lays down the facts on solar and natural gas
A materials scientist and professor of engineering at MIT, Jessika Trancik would rather help humanity beat the clock by speeding up the development of clean energy technologies and sounding the alarm when a technology looks like it isn’t going to scale...
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