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CEE graduate student Samantha O’Keefe and senior research engineer Howard Herzog of the MIT Energy Initiative conducted a survey to learn about the public’s attitudes toward climate change, energy and the environment. The survey showed that […]

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Students in the Transportation Students Group participated recently in the second COMTO-MIT Speaker Series in collaboration with the New York Council of Minority Transportation Officials. CEE graduate students Sam Hickey and Caroline Rose Ducas organized the […]

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Sophomore Tiffany Cheng (1E) won an Ilona Karmel Writing Prize. Cheng received the Writing and Humanistic Studies Prize for Engineering Writing for her paper, “Testing the Unintended Consequences of Lignin Reduction in Genetically Modified Trees on […]

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Thirteen students were welcomed into Chi Epsilon, the civil and environmental engineering honor society, at the society’s annual dinner ceremony, held this year on April 12 at the MIT Museum. New initiates are seniors Sam Fox, […]

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At the April 21 Institute faculty meeting it was announced that Markus Buehler, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in CEE, will receive the 2009–2010 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. The award is […]

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Fred Salvucci, senior lecturer and senior research associate in CEE and former Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth, will be honored by the Boston Preservation Alliance (BPA) at a gala May 13. Salvucci and former Governor […]

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Senior Naomi Stein was one of two MIT students to receive the 2010 AMITA (Association of MIT Alumnae) Senior Academic Award at the MIT Awards Convocation May 4. The award is given to women students for […]

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Three CEE graduate students — Zenzile Brooks, Kari Hernandez and Jessica Molly Patrick — were named Graduate Women of Excellence by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education. They and others were celebrated at an […]

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By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Hamlin Jennings, who is known among academic and industry researchers for his influential work on the fundamental chemistry of cement, will be the inaugural executive director of the Concrete […]

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On Monday, May 10, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in Lobby 13, students from the Terrascope freshman learning community will present their research on ways to reduce the concentrations of carbon and other greenhouse gases in […]

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The May 3 entry on the Alumni Association’s “Slice of MIT” blog was about the Steel Bridge team’s victory at the regional competition in early April. Read the blog. […]

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On Wednesday, May 5, students in the CEE senior capstone course (1.013) will test their bridges in front of the Student Center between 1-3 p.m. Six teams will put together and load-test their portable bridges, all […]

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Nearly 1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. The problem is particularly dire in Ghana. Part of the problem is that large, centralized water filtration and sanitation systems aren’t designed to reach […]

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Patricia Glidden, CEE graduate admissions coordinator, received an Infinite Mile Award from the School of Engineering at a ceremony April 28. In presenting the award, Assistant Dean Eileen Ng-Ghavidel praised Glidden’s management of the admissions process, […]

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Professor David Simchi-Levi will speak at the Sustainability Gala 2010, an evening celebration associated with the Sustainable Supply Chains Conference to be held June 2 on the Noordwijk coast of The Netherlands. Simchi-Levi will give a […]

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