The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT awarded over $1 million in seed grant funding to MIT researchers working on solutions to water and food issues, such as ways to remove PFAS from water sources, drought monitoring systems for farmers, and improvements to the shellfish industry.

For the past decade MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has supported interdisciplinary collaborations and high-risk, high-reward projects, enabling MIT faculty to pursue groundbreaking research that addresses some of the world's most pressing challenges facing our water and food systems.

MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has awarded fellowships to PhD students Jonathan Bessette and Akash Ball, who are working on ways to create water desalination systems in developing countries and improve water purification processes.

For the past decade, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has been instrumental in promoting student engagement across MIT to help solve the world's most pressing water and food challenges.

MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) recently awarded five graduate fellowships to MIT PhD students whose innovative research pushes forward transformational water and food solutions on a global scale.

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.

MIT Professor Sara Beery and PhD student Justin Kay are developing an automated data collection system for monitoring salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) announced 10 new projects led by 15 MIT researchers will receive 2023 J-WAFS seed grants to tackle water and food challenges such as removing harmful chemicals from water and developing systems to manage aquaculture industries.

MIT associate professor Mary Gehring is using mutagenesis to increase genetic diversity in plants, which could lead to the development of climate-resilient traits like drought resistance.

J-WAFS researchers Scott Odell, a visiting researcher in MIT's Environmental Solutions Initiative, and John Fernández, a professor in MIT's Department of Architecture, are examining climate change, copper mining, and desalination, and their environmental and social impacts on Indigenous communities, glaciers, and agriculture in Chile.

MIT engineers created a zwitterionic hydrogel system for single-step water treatment with minimal environmental footprint.

MIT Professor Rohit Karnik has been named the new director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), the only program at MIT specifically focused on water and food for human need.

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.

Events during Earth Month at MIT spanned an astonishing range of ideas and approaches to tackling the climate crisis. Here are just six of many ways the MIT community is making a difference on climate right now.

MIT D-Lab students and instructors are improving brooder technology for newborn chicks in Cameroon. Their Off-Grid Brooder, which employs beeswax to maintain heat, is the result of three years of co-design with local poultry farmers.

MIT graduate student Linzixuan (Rhoda) Zhang recently won the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition, medaling in both the Graduate and People's Choice categories for developing materials to stabilize nutrients in food with the goal of improving global health.

The MIT spinoff company Takachar is working to transform waste biomass into marketable products by providing technology that can be used in the field to convert agricultural waste into a solid, clean-burning fuel.

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.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) draws on MIT's wealth of knowledge in innovation and entrepreneurship to help researchers commercialize their breakthrough technologies in water and food systems through the J-WAFS Solutions grant program.

MIT researchers work to discover biodegradable polyesters through a high-throughput approach conducted using a method called clear-zone assay.