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Kortney Adams S.M. ’00 plays the role of a mural painter, Emma, in the world premiere of “From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story,” a play commissioned by the National Institutes of Health to celebrate […]

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Three CEE seniors are among the 80 MIT students elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society  this year. Membership in the national honor society recognizes academic excellence and educational commitment. Kelcie Abraham, Nicholas Murlo and Naomi […]

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For his work on transport modeling, Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva will receive a Ph.D. honoris causa from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, April 29. The next day, Ben-Akiva will present a special seminar, “Planning and Action in […]

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The MIT Steel Bridge Team walked away from the regional competition at Tufts University last weekend with first place in five categories: 1st Overall, 1st in Efficiency, 1st in Stiffness, 1st in Aesthetics, and 1st in […]

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Last December, CEE junior Aaron Thom, co-president of Sustainability@MIT, and Katherine Dykes, vice president of the MIT Energy Club, represented MIT at a workshop convened by the University of Copenhagen and Yale University as a side […]

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Alan Berger, an associate professor of urban design and landscape architecture, is planning to use wetlands to clean up the Pontine Marshes, a farming area in the Italian countryside just south of Rome. Decades ago, canals […]

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The MIT Sea Grant College Program has selected Janelle Thompson, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, as the recipient of the 2010 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. She will receive a supplemental […]

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Professor Roman Stocker has been named recipient of the 2010 Lindeman Award from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) for his work on bacteria-phytoplankton interactions at small scales. The annual award — named in […]

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Sevara Melibaeva, an M.S.T. student from Uzbekistan, has been awarded a position in the World Bank’s prestigious Young Professionals Program. Melibaeva will begin work at the bank’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., in September. Her first two […]

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Gerhard Hermann Jirka, an internationally known environmental fluid mechanician and an alumnus and former lecturer in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), died Feb. 14 after suffering a heart attack several days earlier. […]

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A new analysis of the structure of silks explains the paradox at the heart of their super-strength, and may lead to even stronger synthetic materials. Silks are among the toughest materials known,  stronger and less brittle, […]

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Hundreds of MIT community members snapped photos on Sept. 24, 2009 as part of the A Day in the Life of MIT project. For its own gallery, TechnologyReview.com then selected one picture for each hour of […]

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MIT Vice Chancellor and Dean for Graduate Education Steven R. Lerman ’72, SM ’73, PhD ’75 has been named George Washington University’s next provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, GW President Steven Knapp announced […]

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Santiago native Eduardo Kausel, a professor in CEE, is an expert in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. In an interview with MIT News, Kausel explains why Chile’s stronger earthquake late February led to less-catastrophic damage than […]

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