Papers by CEE postdoctoral associate Naeem Abdulhadi and two CEE doctoral students — Rebecca Gianotti and Ásbjörg Kristinsdóttir —have been accepted for the final round of the Graduate and Student Paper competition of the regional affiliate […]
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood reappointed ITS America members Joseph M. Sussman and Robert Denaro as chair and vice chair of the U.S. DOT ITS Program Advisory Committee. LaHood also re-named ITS America Board chair […]
CEE postdoctoral fellow Kurt House was named to Technology Review’s TR 35 2009, a list of 35 “young innovators” under age 35. Technology Review selected House for his work with Professor Charles Harvey on ways to […]
Professor Emeritus Robert Whitman is winner of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s 2010 George W. Housner Medal, the highest honor awarded by EERI. In the news release, EERI says: “For more than 30 years, Bob Whitman’s […]
Two CEE professors — Cynthia Barnhart and Andrew Whittle — were among the 68 new members and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering, MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest, NAE president since […]
MIT students recently established a campus chapter of Engineers Without Borders and adopted their first project: providing electricity and clean water to a health clinic in southern Uganda. But in typical MIT student fashion, the MIT […]
Streaming matter! Exploding organisms! Sinking particles! These are some of the things that populate the world of oceanic bacteria, providing the microorganisms with nutrition and perhaps exercise as they race for food. An image illustrating this […]
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced in January that 69 scientists from across the nation, including CEE’s Professor Ruben Juanes, will receive five-year research grants as part of DOE’s new Early Career Research Program. […]
Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies in CEE and biology is the recipient of the Alexander Agassiz Medal from the National Academy of Sciences for her “original contribution in […]
Grants recently awarded to MIT researchers by the U.S. Department of Energy could help to pave the way for a method of generating electricity that produces no greenhouse gas emissions, and that could become a major […]
In 2000 and 2001, the northern Portuguese city of Porto experienced three tunnel accidents. One woman died in the 2001 incident, when a tunnel that was part of the city’s Metro system collapsed under her house. […]
Carl Zimmer, a contributing editor and columnist for Discover magazine, speaks to Professor Penny Chisholm in his Jan. 8 podcast about her work wih the marine microbes “that make a lot of the oxygen on which […]
Three MIT professors last week were honored at the White House as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest award bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers […]
Effective this month, Professor Patrick Jaillet is the new co-director of the Operations Research Center (ORC), replacing Professor Cynthia Barnhart, who has held the post since 2006. Jaillet, who was head of the Department of Civil […]
If we plan to keep using fossil fuels, we need to figure out how to sequester the resulting carbon dioxide. New tools from CEE’s Ruben Juanes could help evaluate where to do it — and how […]