Through J-WAFS commercialization grants of $150,000 each, MIT researchers tackle harmful algal blooms in water, as well as ways to save freshwater in steelmaking by scrap metal consolidation.
As J-WAFS Grand Challenge awardees, Matt Shoulders of MIT’s Department of Chemistry will lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers to improve RuBisCO the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.
MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) awards graduate fellowships to MIT PhD students Gokul Sampath and Jie Yun, who are working to improve water access in developing countries and create agricultural sustainability and resilience.
MIT researchers César Terrer and Wenzhe Jiao are leveraging a new generation of remote sensing devices to provide high-resolution plant water stress data at regional to global scales.