MIT Green Building

01/11/2022

Arlene Fiore, the Peter H. Stone and Paola Malanotte Stone Professor at EAPS, is studying the way air pollutants move through the environment and how long they last. But she isn’t stopping there: she’s also making sure her research is available for other agencies to use so they can incorporate climate policy into their own work.
“What we found is that small tweaks in, for example, the metrics we use to convey the science findings, can go a long way to making the science more usable, especially when there are detailed policy frameworks in place that must be followed,” says Fiore. Read more here:

MIT Professor Arlene Fiore uses satellite data paired with ground observations to refine our understanding of ozone smog and interactions with meteorology and climate.

10/31/2019

Residents of East Campus's 1W line up pumpkins atop the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) EAPS Green Building in preparation for Saturday night's pumpkin drop.
📸: Arun Wongprommoon '23.

PHOTO | Residents of East Campus's 1W line up pumpkins atop the Green Building in preparation for Saturday night's pumpkin drop. Photo by Arun Wongprommoon '23.

10/02/2019

Did you know? MIT’s Cecil and Ida Green Building, a.k.a. Building 54, was dedicated on this date in 1964. It was designed by the late I.M. Pei ’40 and for more than half a century was the tallest building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (The new Kendall Square at MIT Site 4 building currently under construction recently became the tallest.) Home to the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences — not to mention quite a few inspiring window treatments — the Green Building is about to get a $60 million facelift of its own: A planned upgrade will add about 12,000 square feet of new space for meeting places, classrooms, and study areas.

05/17/2019

I.M. Pei '40, master architect who designed the MIT Green Building and the MIT Media Lab, dies at the age of 102.

Mr. Pei, a committed modernist, was one of the few architects equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards.

10/09/2018

Searching for Ancient Life on Mars: Previous missions to the planet have shown Mars to be warmer, wet and potentially habitable for microorganisms. This Thursday at 7p, join us or watch live here as we explore how future missions will determine if life ever originated on Mars.

Eighth Annual John H. Carlson Lecture with Prof. John P. Grotzinger "Searching for Ancient Life on Mars”

04/26/2018

Happy birthday Dad!

Home to the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, I.M.Pei finished my construction in 1964. I have 18 floors and stand 295 feet (90 m) tall, making me the tallest building in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pei is among the world's most noted architects, and received his bachelor's degree from in 1940.

07/04/2017

are best when I'm center stage!

Bldg. 54 was used for patriotic pranks that took place on the 4th of July in 1986 and 1993.

06/02/2017

MIT has issued a statement regarding research that was cited in a set of talking points circulated in support of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

04/26/2017

Oh hey, it's me!

MIT Green building as seen from the Math dept. PC Josh Kastorf.

02/06/2017

The MIT Green Building celebrates the win!

07/04/2016

Everyone have a happy and safe 4th of July!

05/03/2016

Is there life beyond our solar system? If there is, our best bet for finding it may lie in three nearby, Earth-like exoplanets...