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MIT ANNOUNCES FIVE FLAGSHIP PROJECTS IN FIRST-EVER CLIMATE GRAND CHALLENGES COMPETITION
TPP Director Noelle Selin co-leads a project that leverages advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science to improve the accuracy and utility of climate models.... READ MOREMIT News Office -
Energy hackers give a glimpse of a postpandemic future
Current TPP students Kailin Graham and Youssef Shaker among organizers of the 2021 MIT EnergyHack.... READ MOREMIT News Office -
MIT collaborates with Biogen on three-year, $7 million initiative to address climate, health, and equity
TPP Director Noelle Eckley Selin is one of the principals in a new collaboration with Biogen to accelerate the science and action on climate change to improve human health.... READ MOREMIT News Office -
Science and Policy in Practice
MIT students Disha Trivedi and Ty Christoff-Tempesta both participated in TPP-funded internships this past summer at the Massachusetts State House.... READ MORE
TPP addresses societal challenges through research and education at the intersection of technology and policy. Our goal is to mobilize science and engineering to inform intelligent, responsible strategies and policies to benefit communities from local to global.
More energy storage is needed to support wind and solar power, MIT study finds
The authors of the report estimated that the costs of transforming power grids in the Northeast, Southeast, and Texas will range between 21 percent and 36 percent higher than if nothing was done to promote storage-backed renewable energy. TPP alumni Drake Hernandez '21 and Cathy Wang '21 contributed to the The Future of Energy Storage: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study.MIT Climate “Plug-In” highlights first year of progress on MIT’s climate plan
TPP Director Noelle Selin hopes that initial progress will highlight the worldwide effort to address the climate challenge. TPP Student Joy Jackson is optimistic that there are many avenues for research to make its way into policy.What choices does the world need to make to keep global warming below 2 C?
Using a unique modeling strategy, MIT Joint Program researchers including Dr. Jennifer Morris TPP '09 find several possible patterns of energy and technology development under a specified long-term climate target or economic outcome.
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