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Professor Martin Polz publishes research in Cell titled “A reverse ecology approach based on a biological definition of microbial populations”

August 16, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Martin Polz published a new research paper in Cell titled, “A reverse ecology approach based on a biological definition of microbial populations.” The researchers have developed a new method that allows for the identification of […]

Professor Lydia Bourouiba presents TEDMED Talk about the fluid dynamics of airborne disease transmission

August 16, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba presented a TEDMED 2018 talk in front of a live audience. In the talk, now released, Professor Bourouiba distilled her recent work on fluid dynamics and respiratory disease transmission. Spanning the arch from the […]

Rayna Higuchi ’20 blogs about final project in Mechanics of Materials (1.035)

August 3, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Rayna Higuchi ’20 published her latest blog about her final project for Mechanics of Materials (1.035) with Professor Franz-Josef Ulm. She worked with Claire Holley ’21, Chelsea Watanabe ’21 and Luke Bastian ’21 to design and test a […]

Professor Admir Masic holds fourth annual ONE-MA3 trip in Italy with 16 rising sophomores

August 3, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

On June 16 – July 10, 2019, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor Admir Masic held the fourth annual ONE-MA3 trip in Italy with 16 rising sophomores. The three-week program took the students to various […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XXII: Walking Through Amazonian, Medieval, and Egyptian Histories and Culture

July 31, 2019 | ONE-MA3 2019 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 “When you first start, and then you fail, that’s when it gets interesting, and you realize what you need to do next.” The wise words of Professor Masic resonated in our ears […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XXI: Art Restoration and Artificial Pigments in Aramengo

July 31, 2019 | ONE-MA3 2019 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 After spending three days in Turin, we traveled a short ways away to the nearby village of Aramengo, which has a population of about 500 (comparable to the occupancy of the Maseeh […]

How to see a total solar eclipse

July 31, 2019 | Study Abroad | ceemit

By Shannon Wing ’22 Living in Santiago for the summer, I was approximately 6 hours away from a total solar eclipse viewing on this past July 2. I was the closest I had ever been to […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XXIII: Gypsum, Gypsum, Everywhere!

July 26, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Over the course of the entire trip, we’ve heard all about gypsum. Gypsum this, gypsum that. When I first heard the word during the information sessions for ONE-MA^3, I was confused by […]

PhD student Mohamad Sindi’s paper selected as Best Paper Finalist for 2019 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference

July 22, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

PhD student Mohamad Sindi’s paper is selected as Best Paper Finalist for the 2019 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC). Sindi’s paper titled “Using Container Migration for HPC Workloads Resilience” is focused on making long […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s article in Top 50 (#10) most read Earth and planetary sciences Nature Communications articles published in 2018

July 22, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s article titled “North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation,” is one of the Top 50 (#10) most read Earth and planetary sciences Nature Communications […]

ONE-MA3: Castle on the Hill

July 19, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

By Anna Landler ’22 I went into this trip with few expectations. That’s not the same as low expectations. I simply did not have any concrete things that I expected. I had a notion of general […]

ONE-MA3: More Than Travel Companions

July 19, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

By Anna Landler ’22 ONE-MA3 has provided each of us with an unrivaled experience. We have had experts lecture in every aspect of conservation from history to preservation methods. Just the other day we had Duncan, […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XX: Photogrammetry among Pharaohs!

July 17, 2019 | ONE-MA3 2019 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Today, we got to be professionals. At least, the red bars of tape that blocked off certain areas of the Museo Egizio for us to work in made us feel like we […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XIX: Face-to-Face With 3000-Year-old Artifacts!

July 17, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Usually, most ancient artifacts can only be seen being displayed behind glass under scattered spotlight, or even from afar behind a rail. Today however, there were no boundaries when it came to […]

ONE-MA3: Our last day in Italia

July 16, 2019 | ONE-MA3 2019 | ceemit

By Meriah Gannon ’22 Almost three and a half weeks after we first landed in Italy, our last full day in this country has arrived. Although I was sad to see this day come, I was […]