“It has long been known that malaria can be fought by draining swamps and paving streets,” Donald McNeil Jr. writes in the Dec. 22 issue of the New York Times. “But a new study by scientists […]
It’s no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis led by MIT researchers has found that the changes […]
MIT researchers are working with Portuguese colleagues to design a pilot-scale device that will capture significantly more of the energy in ocean waves than existing systems, and use it to power an electricity-generating turbine. Wave energy […]
CEE researchers Professor Roman Stocker and post-doctoral fellow Justin Seymour have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food […]
Graduate student James Vanzo has just been awarded the Marvin E. Goody Award to support his thesis, “Nanochemomechanical Analysis of Cement Paste Subjected to Carbonation.” The $5,000 award is given to MIT graduate students in any […]
Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: why water doesn’t soak into soil at an even rate, but instead forms what look like fingers of fluid […]
Two MIT students, Matt Gethers and Alia Whitney-Johnson, have won prestigious Rhodes Scholarships to study next year at Oxford University in Britain. Whitney-Johnson is a senior in civil & environmental engineering, former Truman Scholar and one […]
To prevent global warming, researchers and policymakers are exploring a variety of options to significantly cut the amount of carbon dioxide that reaches the atmosphere. One possible approach involves capturing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide […]
Two faculty members in CEE received grants through the MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund Program in September: Markus Buehler for a project on bioinspired thermal materials and Harry Hemond (with Ahmed Ghoniem of mechanical engineering) for […]
Anthony Guma, who graduated in June with a master’s degree in Real Estate Development, won the MIT Center for Real Estate Alumni Association’s best thesis award in September. Professor Richard de Neufville of CEE was Guma’s […]
CEE Professor Markus J. Buehler’s new book, titled “Atomistic Modeling of Materials Failure” (Springer 2008), was published in July. Intended as a reference for engineers, materials scientists and researchers in academia and industry, the book provides […]
Graduate student Rory Clune is winner of Britain and Ireland’s most prestigious award for science and engineering undergraduates: the GKN Award for the Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year. The GKN Award (named for […]
Dara Entekhabi, the Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, director of the Parsons Lab and director of the Earth Systems Initiative (ESI), will serve as chair of the […]
Many lives and dollars could be saved if emergency managers could make better decisions when faced with an approaching hurricane. Now, MIT student Michael Metzger, who works with Professor Richard Larson of CEE and the Engineering […]
Emmanuel Carrier, who earned the Ph.D. in transportation earlier this year, won the Anna Valicek Medal from the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies in September for his paper describing his modeling […]