New project: Stricter building energy codes raise home prices and limit housing supply, if not well designed
Keynote Speech: Building Decarbonization Pathways with Uncertainties
New paper: Extreme temperatures, adaptation capacity, and household retail consumption.
New paper: Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century.
New paper: Understanding Housing Market Responses to Stringent Energy Codes
Top 10%: SUL Paper on Social Interaction Demand During COVID-19 Makes Journal of Regional Science List of Top Papers
The SUL paper “Demand for social interactions: Evidence from the restaurant industry during the COVID-19 pandemic”, by Binzhe Wang, Matias Williams, Fábio Duarte and Siqi Zheng, is among the top 10% most downloaded…
‘Think globally, rebuild locally’
SUL researcher Fabio Duarte's paper, "Spatial Optimization of Circular Timber Hubs," published in NPJ Nature Urban Sustainability, has been featured in MIT News…
Driving Change: SUL PhD Student Ashley Vicary Receives Sloan Grant for Public Transportation Research
MIT's Urban Studies and Planning (MITSUL) program is proud to announce that first-year PhD student Ashley Vicary has been awarded a MIT Sloan Latin America Research Grant. Ashley's research focuses on analyzing…
Cross-boundary Air Pollution Paper Accepted to Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM)
Research outcome from SUL’s Indonesia Wildfire project, “Transboundary Wildfire Smoke and Expressed Sentiment: Evidence from Twitter” will be published in the new issue of JEEM…
SUL Director Siqi Zheng Named 2nd VP of AREUEA
Siqi Zheng named 2nd Vice President of AREUEA for 2024…
Researcher Bram van der Kroft published in top journal
SUL researcher, Bram van der Kroft, has his paper published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, a top journal in the field.
MIT Environmental and Energy Seminar Series
CEEPR-Econ seminar
SUL/Harvard CGA collaborative paper accepted to Scientific Data
SUL researcher paper "Twitter Sentiment Geographical Index Dataset" was just accepted by the journal Scientific Data. Authored by Yuchen Chai (MIT DUSP/EECS master’s graduate, SUL researcher), Devika Kakkar (Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, our collaborator), Juan Palacios and Siqi Zheng. It is a major research outcome of our “Global Sentiment” research theme in the past four years. The authors collaborated with Harvard CGA.
Siqi Zheng accepted into the first cohort of MIT’s Fast Forward Faculty Fund Grant Program
SUL Director named member of the inaugural cohort of MIT's Fast Forward Faculty Fund Grant Program (F^4)
Summit Journal of AFIRE accepts latest paper from Zhengzhen Tan
Lecturer Zhengzhen Tan’s recent Web3 decarbonization paper was just accepted by the Summit Journal of AFIRE (Association for International Real Estate Investors). Tan is also named as one of the “Rising Leaders” of AFIRE.
MIT Climate Nucleus' inaugural Fast Forward Faculty Grant
Siqi Zheng is a MIT Fast Forward Faculty Fund recipient. She has formed a cohort and over the course of two years, this cohort will come together regularly (e.g., monthly) for climate leadership and faculty development and for networking. Ideally this will enable them to serve as climate ambassadors across the Institute, helping to identify new opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Siqi Zheng Awarded at ARES conference in Hong Kong
Siqi Zheng was honored July 16 with the prestigious "Asia Real Estate Academic & Professional Women Achievement Award", at the Asia Real Estate Society (ARES) conference in Hong Kong.
Net-Zero Homes and Housing Affordability
Joint research project with the construction management department at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT), sponsored by Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Massachusetts (HBRAMA)
Financial Modeling of Building Decarbonization
Paper, “Quantifying the financial value of building decarbonization technology under uncertainty: Integrating energy modeling and investment analysis” on the financial modeling of building decarbonization just got accepted by the journal Energy and Buildings, a top journal in the building technology and building energy field.
SUL Researcher Wins Outstanding Thesis Award
SUL research assistant, Maria Jimena Muzio’s thesis won DUSP’s Outstanding MCP Thesis Award for her thesis, “Understanding Housing Supply under Stringent Energy-efficiency Regulations”.