Professor Eric Alm and recent graduate Lawrence David have created a sort of genomic fossil that shows that the collective genome of all life underwent an enormous expansion about 3 billion years ago, which they’re calling […]
The settling of particulate organic matter in the ocean is the main means of moving carbon from surface waters toward the deep sea. As the particles fall, microbes colonize them and degrade some of the organic […]
Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva was profiled by the Wall Street Journal in a list of five innovative thinkers in the transport industry for his work on DynaMIT, a real-time traffic management simulator that analyzes the way drivers […]
Professor Joseph Sussman told ITS International that the U.S. transportation industry needs to come up with a new vision for multimodal transportation that will include Intelligent Transportation Systems and “capture the imagination” of the public, which […]
Graduate student Rouzbeh Shahsavari was a Silver Medalist at the Graduate Student Award competition at the 2010 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting held in Boston earlier this month. The honor recognizes the “excellence and distinction” […]
People living in the great expanses of flat, dry regions of the world that lack natural freshwater lakes depend on episodic rainstorms to replenish the groundwater they use for domestic and agricultural purposes. New work by […]
Much as an anthropologist studies populations of people to learn about their environs and social structures, marine microbiologists read the genome of microbes to glean information about the microbes themselves, their environment and lifestyle. Professor Sallie […]
Kari Hernandez, a graduate student in transportation, received one of nine spots awarded by the International Union of Railways (UIC) to attend its High Speed Rail World Congress in Beijing next month. The theme of the […]
Cat fanciers the world over appreciate the gravity-defying grace and exquisite balance of their feline friends. But do they know those traits extend even to the way cats lap milk? Professors Pedro Reis and Roman Stocker […]
Spider silk, an amazingly strong and resilient natural material built out of weak components, has many properties that cannot yet be duplicated in man-made materials. Professor Markus Buehler and his research team have found that this […]
One process commonly used to produce carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, may release several hundred tons of chemicals into the air each year. In a paper published last week on the ACS Nano website, Professor Phil Gschwend, […]
A team with two CEE students and an alumna won the $100,000 first prize in the ConocoPhillips Energy Prize last month, beating about 150 competitors from around the country. CEE doctoral student Matthew Orosz led Team […]
An international team of scientists led by Professor Roman Stocker and including CEE graduate student Tanvir Ahmed found that certain sulfurous chemical compounds in the ocean act as cues for microbe-microbe interactions that have the potential […]
Professor Philip Gschwend is recipient of an Excellence in Review award from Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), a journal of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes outstanding reviewers and pays homage to their significance in […]
The International Journal of Applied Mechanics selected a paper by CEE graduate students Zhao Qin and Steve Cranford, former visiting graduate student Dr. Theodor Ackbarow, and Professor Markus Buehler as a best paper published in the […]