2009 News Releases

New student magazine highlights international development opportunities

December 8, 2009

MIT research points to carbon in man-made ponds as catalyst for arsenic contamination in Bangladeshi drinking water

November 16, 2009

Murcott’s work encourages girls to go into science careers

November 12, 2009

Nanoengineered Concrete idea wins MIT Elevator Pitch Contest

November 10, 2009

Parsons Lab holds 34th annual Halloween party and pumpkin carving contest

November 9, 2009

ASTM names CEE’s Jack Germaine Professor of the Year

October 30, 2009

Simchi-Levi and co-author win prize for three papers

October 13, 2009

Prefrosh learn bridge building and marsh protection in CEE’s pre-orientation program

October 9, 2009

Concrete Sustainability Hub established at MIT

October 5, 2009

Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded

September 9, 2009

Connor receives honorary doctorate recognizing his many achievements

September 9, 2009

Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor

September 2, 2009

Chiang Mei honored with two international symposia

August 27, 2009

Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

August 24, 2009

Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease

August 4, 2009

CEE Awards 132 Degrees in 2008-09

June 23, 2009

CEE engineers find way to slow concrete creep to a crawl

June 15, 2009

Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal materials

June 1, 2009

Steel bridge team finishes 18th at national competition

May 27, 2009

Buyukozturk elected to Scotland’s national academy

May 26, 2009

Seniors, award winners feted at CEE awards ceremony

May 26, 2009

MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch

May 13, 2009

Separating the good from the bad: Two-handed microbes point to new method for isolating harmful forms of chemicals

April 15, 2009

The greening of Earth: Children’s book illuminates photosynthesis

February 25, 2009

CEE research could help predict harmful algal blooms like red tide

February 19, 2009

Simplicity is crucial to design optimization at nanoscale

February 3, 2009

CEE mapping technology could make oil extraction more efficient

January 16, 2009