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A new grant program for MIT faculty and graduate students, called the Fast Forward Faculty Fund (F^4 for short), has awarded six grants to enable new work on climate change while strengthening collaboration on climate across the Institute.

MIT HASTS PhD candidate Steven Gonzalez describes his new book, “Sordidez,” a science fiction novella on rebuilding, healing, and indigeneity following civil war and climate disaster.

MIT PhD student Jamie Wong is an anthropologist studying venture capitalism and the startup economy in China. Through ethnography, she researches how these economic structures have taken hold in China and influenced Chinese businesses and government.

Caption: "Renewable energy must be collected, stored, and transported, says PhD student Caroline White-Nockleby. "It requires financing, metals extraction, and the processing of decommissioned materials. ... Not everyone stands to benefit equally from renewable energys potentials, and not everyone will be equally exposed to its socio-environmental impacts.” Credits: Photo courtesy of Caroline White-Hockleby. Cap...

MIT HASTS PhD student Nadia Chrisitidi answers three questions about the role that the imaginative capacities of visual culture, the arts, and design play in the ability for urban areas to imagine and plan for their possible futures.

World.it has lowered the cost of energy in the u.s. it has re-created the chemical industry in america. which is a very high incomein industry. it hasts helped us against the russians and the saudis and the iranians. she comes along, and i dont think the democrats realize theres going to be county after county after county. eastern ohio, western pennsylvania. there are a lot of folks were making a living because of what has happened with fracking. and basically, shes the guaranteed unemployment ...