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MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev shares his perspective (Time)
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MIT Joint Program global EV projections cited (Yahoo Finance)
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Arlene Fiore joined MIT as the inaugural Peter H. Stone and Paola Malanotte Stone Professor in EAPS Dept.
The School of Science has announced that 11 faculty members have been appointed to named professorships. These positions offer additional support to professors to advance their research and develop their careers.
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In 2018, Cape Town, South Africa’s second most populous city, came very close to running out of water as the multi-year “Day Zero” drought depleted its reservoirs. Since then, researchers from Stanford University determined that climate change had made this extreme drought five to six times more...
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New work within the Joint Program to establish a state-of-the-art integrated model of climate and health aimed at identifying targets that deliver climate and health co-benefits
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MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev discusses how businesses are assessing a move to climate-friendly operations (Yahoo Finance) [FULL INTERVIEW]
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Held September 27-30 online, the MATLAB Computational Finance Conference 2021 convened industry professionals to illustrate practical applications of MATLAB and provide advice to practitioners on topics ranging from artificial intelligence to climate risk.
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The preeminent conference for the advancement of Earth and space sciences, the AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting draws more than 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries each year to share research findings and identify innovative solutions to complex problems. Organized around the...
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With the MIT campus as a test bed, a citizen science effort provides lessons well beyond MIT (MIT Office of Sustainability)
Nicole Morell | MIT Office of Sustainability
Publication Date:
October 3, 2021
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