Hip-hop superstar GZA (Gary Grice), founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan (no relation to GZA Geoenvironmental, Inc., founded by Donald Goldberg ’54, SM ‘55 and Bill Zoino ’54, SM ’55), recently visited MIT and Harvard labs […]
An image by doctoral student Birendra Jha appeared in the October 2011 issue of Wired-UK magazine and the September 2011 issue of Discover magazine. The image was taken from a computer simulation of viscous fingering, which […]
Recognizing that the future is uncertain, project teams can create flexible designs for buildings and systems that can be adapted to meet a variety of needs. “Flexibility in Engineering Design” (MIT Press, September 2011) by Professor […]
Using a new mathematical methodology, Professor Markus Buehler, graduate student Tristan Giesa, and mathematics postdoctoral associate David Spivak created a scientifically rigorous analogy showing the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic […]
Charles “Hank” Spaulding ’51, a devoted alumnus and longtime member of the MIT Corporation, died Thursday, Nov. 24 at age 84. Spaulding worked for many years as a real estate developer and was co-founder of Spaulding […]
An image by doctoral candidate Mack Durham won an award in the Gallery of Fluid Motion at the American Physical Society (APS) Division on Fluid Dynamics meeting, held in Baltimore Nov. 20-22. Winners of the Milton […]
A paper co-authored by postdoctoral fellow Vitaly Belik, a member of Professor Marta González‘s research group, was recently published in the first issue (August 2011) of Physical Review X, the journal of the American Physical Society, […]
In August, the MIT Center for Computational Engineering (CCE) announced that Professor Markus Buehler is now co-director of the center’s educational arm — the master’s program in Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO) — with Professor […]
Complex networks as dissimilar in size, age and character as a yeast cell, the World Wide Web, and the airline system of the United States all share a similar underlying structure, said Professor of Northeastern University […]
Much as people can exchange information instantaneously in the digital age, bacteria associated with humans and their livestock appear to freely and rapidly exchange genetic material related to human disease and antibiotic resistance through a mechanism […]
On Sept. 6, doctoral candidate Sergio Herrero was awarded the 2011 Dr. Mikio Shoji Award for Innovation in Information Technology. The award is named for Mikio Shoji, a longtime corporate supporter of CEE research who flew […]
When President Sebastián Piñera of Chile visited campus Friday, Sept. 23 to meet with MIT President Susan Hockfield, tour the Media Lab and address Chilean students in the Boston area, it was CEE Professor Eduardo Kausel […]
MIT and the East Japan Railway Company celebrated the 20th anniversary of the East Japan Railway Company Professorship Oct. 13 with a reception at the MIT Faculty Club. Joseph M. Sussman, the JR East Professor in […]
Samar Malek presented her research on the mechanics of grid shells at the 20th IABSE-IASS (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering – International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures) Symposium held in London Sept. 20-23. […]
The work of Professor Jerry Connor and recent graduate Simon Laflamme (who is now on the faculty at Iowa State University) is the topic of a story in the October issue of Scientific American. The story, […]