This Fall 2026, the MIT Climate Project & Office of the VP for Energy and Climate are pleased to offer UROP positions for faculty research projects awarded to Frontier Projects.
Six UROP positions are open now – Apply by 08/31!
You can find the UROP postings at the links below, or on the ELx platform filtered for “Vice President for Energy and Climate.” Please reach out with questions to the contacts listed on the postings.
| Project Title | PI & Department | Link to Apply |
| AI and Drones for Coastal Marsh Conservation Project 1: Interactive Tools for Drone-Based Monitoring | Prof. Heidi Nepf Civil & Environmental Engineering | First, sign into ELx. Then, apply at the ELx posting. |
| AI and Drones for Coastal Marsh Conservation Project 2: Computer Vision for Salt Marsh Monitoring | Prof. Heidi Nepf Civil & Environmental Engineering | First, sign into ELx. Then, apply at the ELx posting. |
| Building Coastal Resilience through Climate-Conscious Zoning and Building Codes | Prof. Justin Steil Urban Studies and Planning | First, sign into ELx. Then, apply at the ELx posting. |
| Growing Shorelines: Sediment-Guided Coastal Resilience | Prof. Skylar Tibbits Architecture | First, sign into ELx. Then, apply at the ELx posting. |
| Probing microbial interactions to improve the monitoring and reduction of methane emissions from coastal wetlands | Prof. Tanja Bosak Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | First, sign into ELx. Then, apply at the ELx posting. |
| Sub-Minute Flexibility Market for Data Center Load Fluctuations | Prof. Sungho Shin Chemical Engineering | First, sign into ELx. Then, apply at the ELx posting. |
Additional Frontier Projects will post UROP openings for Spring 2027. Applications will open later this Fall.
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