The CEE website has been named an Official Honoree of the 2009 Webby Awards. The awards are presented each June in New York City by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and are often […]
The CEE website has been named an Official Honoree of the 2009 Webby Awards. The awards are presented each June in New York City by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and are often […]
CEE Ph.D. student Sinan Keten won the prestigious Silver Award at the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) spring meeting in San Francisco last week. MRS Graduate Student Awards honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and […]
Professor Roman Stocker, graduate student Marcos, and colleagues at Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed brethren, impelling the microbes in […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Scientists at MIT and Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed brethren, impelling the […]
The MIT Steel Bridge Team placed first overall and won the Structural Efficiency Award at the regional competition April 5 at Wentworth Institute of Technology. The team placed first or second in every category of the […]
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 […]
Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division (ESD), received the 2008 Joseph A. Martore (1975) Excellence in Teaching Award at the Annual Charles L. […]
CEE junior S. Balaji Mani is one of 26 MIT sophomores and juniors selected as Burchard Scholars in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences for 2009. The award recognizes students who demonstrate unusual abilities […]
The American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) presented its highest honor, the Award of Merit, at a ceremony in June 2008 to John Germaine S.M. ’80, Sc.D. ‘82, a senior research associate in the […]
Professor Markus Buehler, graduate student Sinan Keten and sophomore Britni Ihle, along with nine other MIT students and faculty members, spent spring break in Aachen, Germany, at a week-long course: “The 2009 Aachen-MIT Spring School on […]
Two CEE people were included in the Spring 2009 issue of MIT Spectrvm: Professor Heidi Nepf and graduate student Amy Mueller. Mueller’s work with the Solar Turbine Group is featured in the cover story, “Here Comes […]
Using green and blue and yellow, too, an MIT scientist and a Caldecott Award-winning author/illustrator have teamed up to produce a lavishly illustrated children’s book that explains how the sun kindles life on Earth through photosynthesis. […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Using green and blue and yellow, too, an MIT scientist and a Caldecott Award-winning author/illustrator have teamed up to produce a lavishly illustrated children’s book that explains how the […]
Not far beneath the ocean’s surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone: a sharp variation in marine currents that traps billions […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Not far beneath the ocean’s surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone: a sharp […]