3 Questions: Lourdes Melgar on Mexico’s energy reform | MIT News

MIT alumna, Robert Wilhelm Fellow, and former Mexican government official discusses opportunities and challenges of recent reforms.

Mary Potts | MIT Energy Initiative • mit
March 22, 2017 ~5 min

America’s two-track economy | MIT News

Economist’s new book examines decline of the nation’s middle class.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
March 13, 2017 ~7 min


Strength in numbers | MIT News

PhD student Dean Knox studies social networks and how individuals use them to access government goods and services.

Sarah C. Baldwin | Department of Political Science • mit
Feb. 17, 2017 ~5 min

Cheaper, faster randomized evaluations | MIT News

J-PAL North America releases new catalog of administrative data sets to give researchers a leg up in conducting rigorous evaluations of social programs.

J-PAL North America • mit
Feb. 17, 2017 ~2 min

Concrete Sustainability Hub welcomes Panamanian government officials | MIT News

Panamanian delegates participating in the U.S. Trade and Development Agency Global Procurement Initiative visited MIT to learn about life-cycle cost analysis models.

Anne Wilson Yu | Concrete Sustainability Hub • mit
Feb. 10, 2017 ~5 min

Government leaders gather at MIT to advance evidence-based policymaking | MIT News

State and local policymakers joined with leading researchers to share experiences overcoming challenges to evaluating government programs.

J-PAL North America • mit
Feb. 9, 2017 ~6 min

Testing strategies for preventing violence and crime | MIT News

J-PAL North America funds randomized studies to evaluate crime-prevention programs.

J-PAL North America • mit
Jan. 31, 2017 ~4 min

MIT Election Data and Science Lab launches | MIT News

Founded by political scientist Charles Stewart III, the Election Lab focuses on non-partisan research, data, and analysis to improve elections.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
Jan. 25, 2017 ~9 min


U.S. Department of Energy announces MIT Energy Initiative will join new Manufacturing USA Institute | MIT News

MITEI faculty affiliates to contribute clean energy expertise to national coalition that will address manufacturing challenges in energy-intensive processing industries.

MIT Energy Initiative • mit
Jan. 11, 2017 ~8 min

Helping policy and technology work together | MIT News

Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.

Rachel van Heteren | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science • mit
Dec. 12, 2016 ~7 min

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