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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 […]

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Juniors Connie Liu (1E) and Khalea Robinson (1C) were MIT Burchard Scholars during spring 2010. The Burchard Scholars Program brings together distinguished members of the faculty with sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated excellence in some […]

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Graduate students Mike Szulczewski and Birendra Jha received Outstanding Student Paper Awards for the work they presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Jha’s paper is titled “Numerical Simulation of Mixing in Viscous-Fingering […]

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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 […]

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In March, Professor John Williams gave a series of talks in India on the need for smart electrical grids that will allow homes and businesses to draw power from the main grid at times that will […]

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Professor Marta C. González was a member of the organizing committee of the NetSci 2010 International School and Conference on Network Science, held last week at Northeastern University and MIT. González was also on the scientific […]

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The poor air quality of Los Angeles provides the setting for first-year graduate student Anthony Carrasquillo to study a polluted urban environment. Anthony, who works with Professor Jesse Kroll and postdoctoral associate Eben Cross on problems […]

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Senior lecturer and senior research associate John Germaine was one of three invited speakers at the 13th George F. Sowers Symposium held at Georgia Tech, May 11. Germaine’s talk on “A Perspective on Geotechnical Laboratory Testing: […]

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CEE doctoral student Rouzbeh Shasavari and MIT Sloan School of Management M.B.A. candidate Natanel Barookhian won the MIT $100K Business Plan competition Wednesday evening, with their startup plan for C-Crete Technologies. The idea for C-Crete is […]

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Three teams in senior lecturer Susan Murcott’s D-Lab class (jointly taught with Alice Amsden), “Disseminating Innovations for the Common Good,” won prizes at the MIT IDEAS Competition May 3. The Grease Project team, which includes CEE […]

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Big Think, a website that provides a “global forum connecting people and ideas,” videotaped an interview with Professor Joseph Sussman about the future of transportation. The video is part of a series on the Future of […]

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A consortium involving MIT-Portugal Program Transportation Systems and IST-Lisbon has been awarded a $3.5 million, five-year grant from the Volvo Research and Education Foundation to establish a Center of Excellence on Bus Rapid Transit. The consortium […]

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