As part of her MITEI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project, Lucy Greenup ’28 studied radiation defects in nuclear materials and how these materials can be returned from failure to function. Greenup, a nuclear engineering and materials science student, shares…
American energy infrastructure is revitalizing domestic manufacturing. Smart trade policy can help. Even the most attentive supply chain expert may struggle to keep up with the many tariff announcements and complex sourcing dynamics affecting the American clean power industry over the…
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) recently awarded six grants totaling more than $1 million through its Seed Innovation Fund program, which sponsors early-stage MIT research projects aimed at supporting the energy transition. Each of the six funded projects will receive $175,000…
There was a point in my career when I didn’t know how to get to the next step. I believed that if I worked hard and proved myself, the right doors would open, but it didn’t work that way. I…
Via Separations, a startup company based on technology originally developed with MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) support, announced $36 million in new venture funding in April, bringing its total funding to about $80 million. The Watertown, MA–based company has developed membrane…
Kaitlyn Flowers ’26, a chemical engineering major and energy studies minor (ESM) at MIT, analyzes the policies and economics shaping the energy industry, focusing her studies on the business side of the sector. Flowers discusses how the ESM and climate…