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MIT teams up with three universities in Singapore to develop smart, sustainable urban transportation solutions

November 2, 2009 | News | ceemit

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Research Foundation of Singapore announced a project to develop new models and tools for the planning, design and operation of sustainable future urban transportation. The five-year project will […]

Alumnus writes book about his groundwater research in Bangladesh

October 28, 2009 | News | ceemit

A book written by Doherty Associate Professor Charles Harvey and recent alumnus Khandaker Ashfaque about their research tracing the source of arsenic in Bangladeshi wells was published in the summer. “Arsenic Mobilization in Groundwater: A Case […]

Concrete Sustainability Hub established at MIT

October 5, 2009 | News | ceemit

Interdisciplinary collaboration will accelerate the growth of science and engineering in concrete research Concrete is the most widely used building material on the planet; however, the production of some of its component materials accounts for up […]

Sussman explains why high-speed rail and congestion pricing are needed in the U.S.

April 13, 2009 | News | ceemit

Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division (ESD), appears in Good magazine’s transportation issue. In an interview with Siobhan O’Connor, he explains why the […]

How to fight malaria by changing the environment

December 23, 2008 | Research | ceemit

“It has long been known that malaria can be fought by draining swamps and paving streets,” Donald McNeil Jr. writes in the Dec. 22 issue of the New York Times. “But a new study by scientists […]

MIT finds climate change could impact water supplies dramatically

December 17, 2008 | Research | ceemit

It’s no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis led by MIT researchers has found that the changes […]

Catch the wave: CEE researchers eye clean energy possibilities on Portuguese coast

December 17, 2008 | Research | ceemit

MIT researchers are working with Portuguese colleagues to design a pilot-scale device that will capture significantly more of the energy in ocean waves than existing systems, and use it to power an electricity-generating turbine. Wave energy […]

CEE researchers explain mystery of gravity fingers

December 11, 2008 | Research | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: why water doesn’t soak into soil at an even rate, but instead […]

Entekhabi to lead MIT Environmental Research Council

October 13, 2008 | News | ceemit

Dara Entekhabi, the Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, director of the Parsons Lab and director of the Earth Systems Initiative (ESI), will serve as chair of the […]

Software will improve hurricane planning and evacuation

October 13, 2008 | Research | ceemit

Many lives and dollars could be saved if emergency managers could make better decisions when faced with an approaching hurricane. Now, MIT student Michael Metzger, who works with Professor Richard Larson of CEE and the Engineering […]

NPR’s Science Friday attends birthday bash for Prochloroccus

June 18, 2008 | News | ceemit

NPR’s Joe Palca attended Prochlorococcus Fest, a two-day celebration at MIT honoring the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the marine microbe. The fest featured a range of talks highlighting research on the smallest and most […]

Rafael Bras named dean of UC Irvine School of Engineering

April 27, 2008 | News | ceemit

Contact: Denise Brehm MIT Civil & Environmental Engineering brehm@mit.edu Professor Rafael L. Bras, who joined the MIT faculty shortly after earning his doctorate here in 1975, and who has served as a lab director, department head, […]

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

March 4, 2008 | Research | ceemit

Microbes living in the oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth’s environment, but very little is known about their activities and how they work together to help control natural cycles of water, carbon and energy. […]

CEE alum credited with Nobel Peace Prize work will speak at MIT

October 29, 2007 | News | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE alumnus Adil Najam, a lead author on two of the reports that garnered the Nobel Peace Prize for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will speak on […]

Ben-Akiva honored for lifetime achievement in transportation research

July 13, 2007 | Awards | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva, the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems program, received the Dupuit Prize from the World […]