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MIT faculty and researchers receive many external awards throughout the year. The MIT School of Engineering periodically highlights the honors, prizes, and medals won by community members working in academic departments, labs, and centers. Winter 2025 honorees include the following:Faez Ahmed, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor in Naval Engineering and Utilization and an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), received a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. The CAREER program is one of NSF’s most prestigious awards that supports early-career faculty who display outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research. Martin Zdenek…

Duke Energy Submits Early Site Permit at Coal Plant Site Wyoming Awards $100 Million for BWXT TRISO Fuel Plant Centrus Launches Commercial LEU Enrichment Activities Urenco USA Produces First LEU+ Fuel Bulgaria And Poland Companies Set Joint Venture for BWRX-300 SMR Turkey Lands $9 billion in Finance from Rosatom for Akkuyu Japan Plans To Restart Unit 6 At Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Station Next Month China Begins Work on Two More Nuclear Power Plants TAE, UKAEA Create Joint Venture for Fusion Energy Duke Energy Submits Early Site Permit at Coal Plant Site The company’s application includes six potential reactor technologies, including…

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According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, one in three bridges needs repair or replacement, amounting to more than 200,000 bridges across the country. A key culprit of America’s aging infrastructure is rebar that has accumulated rust, which cracks the concrete around it, making bridges more likely to collapse.Now Allium Engineering, founded by two MIT PhDs, is tripling the lifetime of bridges and other structures with a new technology that uses a stainless steel cladding to make rebar resilient to corrosion. By eliminating corrosion, infrastructure lasts much longer, fewer repairs are required, and carbon emissions are reduced. The company’s technology…

As 2026 begins, nuclear risks and the false myths about nuclear deterrence on the rise. ICAN, working with countries and partners across continents, are challenging nuclear weapons and taking our work to the next level. Here are three things we’re looking forward to this year: Celebrating five years of the nuclear ban treaty On 22 January, we’ll mark five years since nuclear weapons officially became illegal under international law. That’s not symbolic — it’s transformative. ICAN and partners around the world will commemorate the moment that nuclear weapons finally became illegal. With celebrations, seminars, screenings, actions and activism across the…

Q1: What is sustainable finance?Sustainable finance considers environmental, social, and governance (ESG) characteristics alongside traditional financial risk and return analysis. The level of sustainability varies across financial products.    Due to the lack of standardized sustainability ratings, government guidelines aim to increase transparency. European and Swiss authorities issued guidelines for the disclosure of sustainability characteristics that apply to most investment funds sold in Switzerland.Q2: What are funds that account only for sustainability risk alongside financial risk and return analysis?These funds consider ESG-related issues that can negatively impact a firm’s financial performance. For example, they consider whether a company is exposed to the…

A $20 million gift from the Leinweber Foundation, in addition to a $5 million commitment from the MIT School of Science, will support theoretical physics research and education at MIT.Leinweber Foundation gifts to five institutions, totaling $90 million, will establish the newly renamed MIT Center for Theoretical Physics – A Leinweber Institute within the Department of Physics, affiliated with the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at the School of Science, as well as Leinweber Institutes for Theoretical Physics at three other top research universities: the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, as well…

 Reaction: Global outcry after US strikes Venezuela4 Jan 26, https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live?page=with:block-69599f418f085ed25e9e3394Nicolás Maduro ‘has arrived in New York’A plane believed to be carrying Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, has landed near Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York.Maduro is expected to be taken by helicopter to the city where he will be processed and transported to the Metropolitan Detention Center prison, officials told NBC News.They added the Venezuela president is set to appear in court by Monday evening.The New York Times has reported that at least 40 people, including civilians and soldiers, were killed in Saturday’s US attack on Venezuela. The estimate comes from a…

City skyline of Denver Colorado downtown with snowy Rocky Mountains and the City Park Lake. This is the second blog post in this series looking at the requirements that the State of Colorado and City of Denver adopted to implement building performance standards (Blog # 1 can be accessed here). It will review the benchmarking requirements that determine the scope of the building performance standard through “covered building” definitions that use building type and square footage as parameters. This blog will raise issues on whether and how the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) applies to these requirements. Energy benchmarking…

Fusion energy has the potential to enable the energy transition from fossil fuels, enhance domestic energy security, and power artificial intelligence. Private companies have already invested more than $8 billion to develop commercial fusion and seize the opportunities it offers. An urgent challenge, however, is the discovery and evaluation of cost-effective materials that can withstand extreme conditions for extended periods, including 150-million-degree plasmas and intense particle bombardment.To meet this challenge, MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has launched the Schmidt Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technologies, or LMNT (pronounced “element”). Backed by a philanthropic consortium led by Eric and Wendy Schmidt,…