A new study from researchers at Woodwell Climate Research Center and MIT CEE Research Scientist Judah Cohen introduces the accumulated dangerous heat index, a new tool to assess the life-threatening risks of extreme heat and humidity.
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- Early-career women in CEE and related fields are invited to apply now for MIT CEE’s Rising Stars in Civil & Environmental Engineering workshop. Join two days of research talks, career panels, and networking with MIT faculty. Applications close August 1: ceerisingstars.mit.edu
- A new framework developed by Prof. Michael Howland and collaborators shows that where new energy projects are built could be key to avoiding blackouts in a warming climate.
- Researchers in the Carstensen Lab developed a framework that folds a 3D printer’s real-world limits into the optimization, producing designs that can be printed with little to no manual redesign.
- Prof. Desirée Plata and research scientist Glen Andrew de Vera received the J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems to study the impacts of agricultural runoff on drinking water treatment. jwafs.mit.edu/news/2026/agri…
