An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes’ natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs — snippets of RNA that act as […]
An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes’ natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs — snippets of RNA that act as […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes’ natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs […]
Professor Rafael Bras returned to MIT from his post as dean of engineering at the University of California at Irvine to deliver the annual Killian Lecture and attend a symposium in his honor held March 29-30. […]
A review article by CEE Assistant Professor Markus Buehler appeared in the Feb. 20 issue of the journal Nature Materials. The article, “Deformation and Failure of Protein Materials in Physiologically Extreme Conditions and Disease,” by Buehler […]
CEE Professor Phillip Gschwend was awarded the Perkins Award at MIT’s Awards Convocation May 5. The Frank E. Perkins Award, named for CEE’s own Professor Frank Perkins who served as Dean of the Graduate School from […]
Two DLab teams mentored by Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott won top prizes at the IDEAS Competition May 4. Global Citizen Water Initiative was honored for its innovations related to Murcott’s research supported by Google.org and the […]
Fifteen undergraduates, including CEE sophomore Connie Lu, have been selected for the MIT Arts Scholars program for the 2009-10 academic year. They will join the 15 Arts Scholars currently in the program, which brings together students […]
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 […]