Tag: Urban studies and planning

innovation program

Think globally, rebuild locally

22 March 2024
Enhanced Innovation

Building construction accounts for a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions: About 36 percent of carbon…

startup

Building technology that empowers city residents

3 January 2024
Enhanced Innovation

Kwesi Afrifa came to MIT from his hometown of Accra, Ghana, in 2020 to pursue an…

startup

Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars

11 December 2023
Enhanced Innovation

Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li have won Marshall Scholarships, a prestigious British government-funded fellowship that offers…

startup

Technologies for water conservation and treatment move closer to commercialization

7 September 2023
Enhanced Innovation

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) provides Solutions Grants to help MIT…

new idea

Not your grandparents’ “Monopoly”

25 July 2023
Enhanced Innovation

On an otherwise sleepy Friday in late June, one corner of MIT’s Hayden Library was abuzz…

startup

Envisioning the future of computing

16 June 2023
Enhanced Innovation

How will advances in computing transform human society? MIT students contemplated this impending question as part…

participatory design

Bringing the social and ethical responsibilities of computing to the forefront

8 June 2023
Enhanced Innovation

There has been a remarkable surge in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence to address…

startup

Will the charging networks arrive in time?

22 May 2023
Enhanced Innovation

For many owners of electric vehicles (EVs), or for prospective EV owners, a thorny problem is…

startup

MIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day

2 May 2023
Enhanced Innovation

Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president,…

startup

Building a decentralized bank for micro businesses in Latin America

24 June 2022
Enhanced Innovation

In Barranquilla, Colombia, Edinson Flores has run a small, family-owned fast-food business for many years. But…