By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering The smallest, most abundant marine microbe, Prochlorococcus, is a photosynthetic bacteria species essential to the marine ecosystem. An estimated billion billion billion of the single-cell creatures live in the […]
Professor Carolina Osorio was awarded the 100 Colombians Award by the Fusionarte Association of Colombia. The award recognizes the work of Colombians who excel in their fields and live outside the country. Osorio was honored for […]
Shruti Sharma, a junior in materials science and engineering, and running mate 1C junior Billy Ndengeyingoma were elected president and vice president of the MIT Undergraduate Association in March. Ndengeyingoma says his primary focus as vice […]
CEE graduate student Thomas Petersen is running the Boston Marathon with the MIT Strong team — not to compete, he says, but to honor the memory of Sean Collier, the MIT police officer who was slain […]
Professor Markus Buehler, head of CEE, will receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Journal of Applied Mechanics Award honoring the best paper published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics during the two calendar years preceding […]
CEE department head Professor Markus Buehler sent an email yesterday to the community requesting nominations for the department’s annual awards, including several new awards for undergraduate leadership and community, best doctoral thesis, postdoctoral scholars, and staff […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE graduate student Thomas Petersen has been running competitively for a decade. He placed 13th in his first half-marathon at age 17 in Phoenix, competed in NCAA Division I […]
Khalid Jawed, a graduate student from Pedro Reis’ research group, won the Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics’ Best Student Speaker Award at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Denver, Colo., for […]
CEE graduate student Philip William Kreycik led an MIT team that won a Best Proposal award in the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge. Kreycik, who is getting a dual master’s degree in city planning and […]
A study by CEE Professor Lydia Bourouiba and Professor John Bush of mathematics shows that coughs and sneezes have associated gas clouds that keep their potentially infectious droplets aloft over much greater distances than previously realized. […]
Beginning fall 2014, CEE will offer a new flexible undergraduate program, 1-ENG, which will give students the flexibility of designing their unique and challenging educational programs to suit their individual interests, career goals, and aspirations. Students […]
The flexible undergraduate program, launching this fall, mixes rigor and depth with applications to critical areas of societal importance Beginning fall 2014, the Department of Civil and Environmental (CEE) will offer a new Course 1 flexible […]
CEE’s own Thomas Petersen, a graduate student working with Professor Franz-Josef Ulm’s research group, has joined the MIT Strong Boston marathon team to help raise money for the Collier Fund. Petersen qualified for the marathon by […]
Course 1 junior Marisa Fryer, an environmental engineering science major with a minor in literature, has been named a 2014 Burchard Scholar. The MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences bestowed the award to 31 sophomores […]
When the MIT Big Data Challenge asked, “What can you learn from data about 2.3 million taxi rides?” graduate students in CEE Professor Marta González’ Human Mobility and Networks Lab (HuMNet) had some answers. The students […]
