“There’s Something in the Air,” a feature about Professor Colette Heald, was a headline story in MIT News Spotlight on April 28 describing her atmospheric chemistry career. The article describes her route to MIT and notes […]
Research Scientist Zhao Qin and McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler received a Most Cited Paper Award for their co-authored paper, “Robustness-Strength Performance of Hierarchical Alpha-Helical Protein Filaments” published in the International Journal […]
New research shows how to identify buildings where retrofitting for energy efficiency will have the biggest impact on a city’s overall greenhouse gas emissions. The findings, which require only minimal information about the buildings and their […]
Professor Otto X. Cordero and other Ecuadorian-natives of the MIT community are helping lead recent earthquake relief efforts by publicizing groups accepting donations. Speaking about the recent Ecuadorian quakes, Professor Cordero says “Many of these towns […]
Professor Serguei Saavedra, working with a team of European ecology researchers, highlighted some of the major processes shaping Poland’s Bialoweiza Forest’s delicate biodiversity. The paper, Seasonal Species Interactions Minimize the Impact of Species Turnover on the Likelihood […]
Senior Lecturer Fred Salvucci’s recent interview by NPR Here and Now host Jeremy Hobson aired Wednesday, April 13. The feature, “Public Transportation In America: How It Stalled And Where It’s Going,” describes how fifty years ago […]
On April 12, Professor Bourouiba spoke at MIT’s forward-looking symposium, Frontiers of the Future. She told the audience that among the problems the world faces is the emergence — and sometimes the re-emergence — of deadly […]
Researchers in Professor Pedro Reis’s lab, in collaboration with a team from EPFL in Switzerland, have developed a rapid fabrication technique and a theory that accurately predicts the final thickness of a shell of a known […]
Congratulations to CEE graduate student Mark Membreño who made it to the final rounds of the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Innovation Showcase on Saturday for his Bolivia GSAP toilet idea. Although he did not win the […]
Professor Kausel recently published his first biomechanics paper in Stem Cell Reports: “Integrated Analysis of Contractile Kinetics, Force Generation, and Electrical Activity in Single Human Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes.” The paper measures and predicts how strongly cardiomyocytes […]
Professor Lydia Bourouiba was selected as one of 13 MIT faculty to present at MIT’s Frontiers of the Future from 1:30-3:30 pm on Tuesday, April 12 in Kresge Auditorium as part of the MIT2016 celebration. Professor […]
Professor Eduardo Kausel was recently elected into the Chilean Academy of Engineering as Corresponding Member. Department Head Markus J. Buehler congratulated Prof. Kausel on this honor saying, “This achievement is a recognition of decades of contributions […]
Professor Admir Masic will conduct two weeks of fieldwork in Italy this summer with undergraduates who sign up to join him as a prerequisite for a new fall special subject, Heritage Science and Technology (1.S993). The […]
In the fall semester of 2015, a group of Course 1 students enrolled in 1.101: Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design – all with the goal to innovate Boston challenges and design real-world solutions. Under […]
Professor Otto X. Cordero has been selected by the Simons Foundation to receive a 2016 Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Award, with funding for his project entitled, “Systems Ecology of Particle-Attached […]