In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of […]
Scientists worry that rising global temperatures accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions will initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere. An MIT paper elucidates how this underground methane in frozen regions would escape […]
Not one, but two special symposia honored Professor Chiang C. Mei this year. Colleagues, friends and former students honored him at a special symposium June 1-2 during the 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic […]
Professor Andrew J. Whittle, a geotechnical engineer who served on the panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and the Massachusetts governor’s “stem to stern” safety review of Boston’s Big Dig […]
Ph.D. candidate Simon Laflamme spent three weeks in July at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign attending the Asia-Pacific Summer School (APSS) on Smart Technologies. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the APSS program gathered researchers […]
Parsons Laboratory graduate students Gajan Sivandran and Sarah Jane White each received an Outstanding Student Paper Award (hydrology section) for work presented at the American Geological Society’s 2008 Fall meeting in San Francisco. Sivandran, a member […]
Associate Professor Markus Buehler has been selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young researchers. Nine federal departments and agencies annually […]
The redesigned CEE alumni newsletter, CEE In Focus, won a gold award in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education’s annual Circle of Excellence Awards in the category Tabloid and Newsletter Publishing Improvement. Monica […]
Science Magazine dedicated a special issue to the topic of complex network theory. In that issue, the editors highlighted the career of new CEE Assistant Professor Marta González. The article said: “The mathematical tools developed to […]
The weak tendons and fragile bones characteristic of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, stem from a genetic mutation that causes the incorrect substitution of a single amino acid in the chain of thousands of amino […]
CEE graduates gathered with their families and friends in Killian Court June 5 to celebrate MIT’s 143rd Commencement exercises. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick addressed the graduates with a message of encouragement. “Crisis is the platform for […]
SEED Magazine included Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s malaria research in a June 11 article profiling “the most promising and innovative approaches to fighting malaria.” The article by Maywa Montenegro accompanies a longer article about the health risks […]
A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including Pedro Miguel Reis, an instructor in the Department […]
CEE civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth — concrete — to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as […]
Professor David Simchi-Levi, co-director of the Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) program, announced today that the program has a new name: Leaders for Global Operations (LGO). This new identity reflects the expansion from LFM’s historically broad understanding […]