Professor Markus Buehler and members from his Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics published a paper in ACS Nano that highlights their perspective on the manufacturing of hierarchical nanostructured materials from sustainable sources, assembly techniques, and […]
On August 8, high school and middle school students from around the Boston area presented four research posters at a Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) poster event. The students are working with Concord Middle School teacher, Doug […]
The MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Sciences and Engineering is celebrating its 50th year. To honor the program, celebrations will be held on Thursday, September 27 at MIT and on Friday, September 28 […]
Professor Charlie Harvey and Donald and Martha Harleman Professor Heidi Nepf were newly elected as 2018 AGU Fellows. Awarded to only 0.1% of members a year, AGU Fellows are AGU members whose “visionary leadership and scientific […]
Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows that China’s most populous and agriculturally important region could face deadly heat waves unless significant measures are taken at the global scale to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigate climate […]
Assistant Professor Otto Cordero and researchers from his lab published new research that suggests that ecological interactions between bacteria on particles’ surfaces can impact the rates of carbon turnover in the ocean. The results were published […]
Institute Professor Penny Chisholm presented a TED Talk on “the tiny creature that secretly powers the planet,” prochlorococcus. Watch here. […]
Graduate student Janelle Heslop was one of twenty students to be elected into the Switzer Fellowship Network. The Switzer Fellowship Program is a one-year fellowship for accomplished graduate students in New England and California with career […]
Assistant Professor Lydia Bourouiba is a 2018 recipient of the Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award for creative and innovative junior investigators working on high impact ideas to generate breakthroughs and drive new directions in biomedical research. […]
Professor Oral Buyukozturk received the 2018 George W. Housner Medal for Structural Control and Monitoring from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The medal was awarded for his “pioneering and transformative developments in video-based structural […]
Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet and can crawl, roll, jump, and snap together. A potential application of the technology is to use […]
In the Spring 2018 edition of MIT’s Spectrum, Donald and Martha Harleman Professor Heidi Nepf and Graduate Student Judy Qingjun Yang SM ’15 were profiled for their research on restoring and maintaining wetlands. Read more here. […]
CEE Research Scientist Jeremy Gregory, executive director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub), participated in a Q&A with U.S. News and World Report where he discussed the benefits of adopting hazard-resistant construction approaches. Read the article […]
Professor Franz-Josef Ulm was featured in a Boston Globe article about the Longfellow Bridge as construction comes to an end. In the article, Ulm notes that the Longfellow turned the Charles River into a “public oasis.” […]
From May 21- May 24, Graduate Students Andrew Lee and Adam Rosenfield were two of twenty selected to attend the Eno Center for Transportation’s 2018 Future Leaders Development Conference (LDC) in Washington D.C. The LDC gives […]
