Sustainability

Starr will use the funding and other benefits of the fellowship to create a podcast that publicizes the research of energy institutes within the collaborative.

Among other aims, the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW) educates the next generation of offshore wind professionals.

The Summer Education Accelerator empowered participants to share the latest innovations in offshore-wind energy and build collaborations across institutions.

Researchers call for industry standards in the unregulated at-home water testing kit market.

Modeling data shows that upfront investments in co-undergrounding wires, particularly in outage-prone areas, can pay off.

The trailblazing invention is a proficient, adaptable, and economical electrochemical method to purify water contaminated with a variety of harmful substances.

The building design for the Sustainable Engineering Laboratories (SEL) recently won a grand prize in the Embodied Carbon Reduction Challenge. 

Erin Baker, MIE, comments on the possibilities of offshore wind farms connected by an underwater power grid.

The cofounders of rStream are two of the 62 Activate Fellows who “drive meaningful change toward a sustainable and equitable society.”

The researchers aim to make greenhouse gas data more transparent, trustworthy, and available.

Lead author James Manwell of MIE has been working since 2016 on the third edition, which provides “complete and comprehensive coverage” of wind energy.

Trillium Brewing in Canton, Massachusetts recently celebrated going solar with assistance from UMass College of Engineering faculty, alumni, and students.