CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are starting a project to better understand how to best tackle the world's looming energy crisis.
MIT President Susan Hockfield said the establishment of the MIT Energy Initiative will allow the school, "with its unique talents and capabilities," to address what she called one of the most urgent challenges of our time.
Hockfield says the project will address "the science, technology, policy, and systems design required to meet the global energy challenge." She said the program will progressively build focused research programs, coordinated educational offerings and the necessary campus infrastructure, leading to the establishment of a new interdepartmental laboratory or center that will involve researchers from all five MIT schools.
"When MIT focuses on large issues of great public importance, we are able to get things done," she said.
The initiative will be led by MIT Physics Professor Ernest Moniz and Chemical Engineering Professor Robert Armstrong.
