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JANUARY 13, 2014

A modeling study by researchers at MIT projects that 5 billion (52%) of the world’s projected 9.7 A large portion of these regions already face water stress—most notably India, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Looking at the influence of climate change alone, the researchers find a different result.

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Her team’s research program included projects in Australia and Africa. Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass. One was an MIT electrical engineering student to whom she had given one of her old spectrometers to start his research.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

An aggressive global cellulosic biofuels program could contribute substantially to future global-scale energy needs, but could have significant unintended environmental consequences, according to a recent report by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Melillo et al.

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