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ONE-MA3 2018: Masters of Mortar

June 24, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today began with a lecture on geo polymers, limestones, and ancient building materials by the revered Gilberto Quarneti. We learned the steps to make limestone and some of the history behind how […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Castle Living

June 21, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 The Castle Caetani has been our home for the past week, and we’re finally getting used to living in a medieval castle. The girls live down the steps toward the stables, and […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Exploring Ninfa

June 21, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today we began by touring the Ninfa Gardens, which was built on a medieval city that was destroyed in 1382. Our guide explained how the city of Ninfa was a linking point […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Learning Photogrammetry and DPI

June 20, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Rachel Weissman ’21 After a weekend of kayaking and beaches, we began our real work on Monday, June 18. In the morning we received a guest lecture from Diego Ronchi, a doctorate student at the […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Adventuring with Area.3

June 19, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today it seemed as if we were adopted by an extended Italian family – the family who operates the Gruppo Canoisti Pontini, aka Area.3, in Sermoneta. They took us trekking up to […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Balancing conservation of nature and history

June 19, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Patricia Gao ’21 Trees yawned. Water sparkled. Flowers bloomed, in the midst of clouds of butterflies. All of it happened around, over, and through the remains of a medieval village. This was the most romantic […]

ONE-MA3 2018: A Day in Priverno

June 18, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 A metal triangle hangs on the side of the Caetani Castle’s kitchen exterior, and the chefs’ children hit it with a hammer to signal meal times. This is how our day began, […]

ReACT Program, launched by Professor Admir Masic, begins collaboration with MITx MicroMasters program and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

May 1, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

The MIT Refugee Action (ReACT) Certificate Program, created by Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, began a collaboration with the MITx MicroMasters program in data, economics, and development policy and the Abdul […]

Professor Admir Masic’s lab featured in The Tech

February 22, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

The Laboratory for Multiscale Characterization and Materials Design, led by Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, was featured in The Tech. Graduate student Linda Seymour was interviewed for the profile and spoke […]

Admir Masic uses an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer

Professor Admir Masic leads ‘antiqua-inspired’ method for creating sustainable materials

November 20, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

Research from Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic focuses leveraging ancient successes to create new, sustainable materials, a concept referred to as an ‘antiqua-inspired’ method. Masic collaborated with a team of international […]

Professor Admir Masic leads ‘antiqua-inspired’ method for creating sustainable materials

November 20, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

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Department hosts 30 children and teenagers on campus for the second annual CEE Kids Camp

September 5, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]On August 15, a group of 30 children and teenagers came to campus to participate in the second annual CEE Kids Camp. The day-long event featured numerous STEM activities for children of all ages and abilities, […]

ONE-MA3 gives students hands-on fieldwork experience in the context of cultural heritage

July 31, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, and teaching assistants Linda Seymour and Chad Loh, led a group of ten students around Italy for the second annual summer fieldwork program on Materials in […]

ONE-MA3 2017: The Finale

July 5, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig For ONE-MA3’s last day together in Italy, we had a lot of work planned. We started the day by pulling our boulders out of the oven and taking samples of the interior and […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Not the Right Kind of Blue

July 5, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The ONE-MA3 team had been excitedly waiting for our Egyptian blue to finish cooking and today we were finally able to take our mixtures out of the furnace and see the change in […]