By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering About 580 million years ago, life on Earth began a rapid period of change called the Cambrian Explosion, a period defined by the birth of new life forms over […]
By Cathryn Delude Correspondent, Civil & Environmental Engineering 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 […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Much as an anthropologist can study populations of people to learn about their physical attributes, their environs and social structures, some marine microbiologists read the genome of microbes to […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Cat fanciers around the world 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 […]
Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering The oceans are teeming with microscopic organisms whose sheer collective mass adds weight to whatever roles they play in maintaining balance in Earth’s cycles — the closed loops of carbon, […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Eric Adams, lecturer and senior research engineer in CEE, was awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry for disproving the adage that oil and water don’t mix. Adams […]
Professors Pedro Reis and Markus Buehler of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and CEE doctoral student Dipanjan Sen recently collaborated on a research project with Konstantin Novoselov, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering In a research project run by CEE senior research associate John Germaine this past summer, a drilling rig on the lawn of Killian Court forced an experimental probe into […]
By Joel Greenberg Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution What if trains, planes, and automobiles all were powered simply by the air through which they move? Moreover, what if their exhaust and byproducts helped the environment? Well, such […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE graduates gathered with families, friends and CEE faculty, staff and alumni for a luncheon in Building 1 after the Hooding ceremony June 3, and again on the lawn […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering The regionally top-ranked MIT Steel Bridge Team placed sixth at the national competition at Purdue University May 29, an extraordinary feat for this young team of undergraduates in its […]
Provost Rafael Reif today released the report of the Environmental Research Council (ERC), chaired by CEE Professor Dara Entekhabi, and asked the council to design an implementation plan for launching an MIT Environmental Initiative in January […]
Faculty, staff and students of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering recognized graduating seniors, department award winners and retiring faculty members at the annual awards dinner held Friday evening, May 14 at the MIT Faculty […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) awarded Professor Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm the Alexander Agassiz Medal for original contribution in the science of oceanography, at a ceremony in Washington, […]
Gerhard Hermann Jirka, an internationally known environmental fluid mechanician and an alumnus and former lecturer in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), died Feb. 14 after suffering a heart attack several days earlier. […]