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Concrete Sustainability Hub established at MIT

October 5, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Concrete is the most widely used building material on the planet; however, the production of some of its component materials accounts for up to 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions annually. To address the sustainability […]

Concrete Sustainability Hub established at MIT

October 5, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | 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 […]

Connor receives honorary doctorate recognizing his many achievements

September 9, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

For pioneering work on topics including computational mechanics, motion-based design and control systems for structures, Professor Jerome Connor received an honorary doctorate degree on April 29 from the Department of Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University […]

Connor receives honorary doctorate recognizing his many achievements

September 9, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering For pioneering work on topics including computational mechanics, motion-based design and control systems for structures, Professor Jerome Connor received an honorary doctorate degree on April 29 from the Department […]

Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded

September 9, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of […]

Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded

September 9, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, […]

Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor

September 2, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Scientists worry that rising global temperatures accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions will initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere. An MIT paper elucidates how this underground methane in frozen regions would escape […]

Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor

September 2, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Scientists worry that rising global temperatures accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions will initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere. Once released, that methane gas would […]

Two symposia honor Professor Chiang C. Mei

August 27, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Not one, but two special symposia honored Professor Chiang C. Mei this year. Colleagues, friends and former students honored him at a special symposium June 1-2 during the 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic […]

Chiang Mei honored with two international symposia

August 27, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Not one, but two major symposia were held this year in honor of Professor Chiang C. Mei’s decades of contributions to wave and fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics. Colleagues, friends […]

Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

August 24, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Andrew J. Whittle, a geotechnical engineer who served on the panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and the Massachusetts governor’s “stem to stern” safety review of Boston’s Big Dig […]

Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

August 24, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

Grad student attends Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart Technologies

August 20, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Ph.D. candidate Simon Laflamme spent three weeks in July at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign attending the Asia-Pacific Summer School (APSS) on Smart Technologies. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the APSS program gathered researchers […]

Parsons grad students win AGU awards for paper presentations

August 12, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Parsons Laboratory graduate students Gajan Sivandran and Sarah Jane White each received an Outstanding Student Paper Award (hydrology section) for work presented at the American Geological Society’s 2008 Fall meeting in San Francisco. Sivandran, a member […]

Buehler will receive U.S. Presidential Early Career Award

August 6, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Associate Professor Markus Buehler has been selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young researchers. Nine federal departments and agencies annually […]