[fusion_text]This summer, members of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) traveled to New Brunswick, Canada to get a firsthand look at concrete durability issues at the Mactaquac Dam. CSHub is collaborating with researchers from the University of […]
[fusion_text]Research from McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler and graduate student Grace Gu into the unique structure of conch shells was featured in Popular Science. The article details three bioinspired materials: alligator gar, […]
[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, […]
[fusion_text]New research from Associate Professor of CEE and Chemical Engineering Jesse Kroll and James Hunter PhD ’15, now a technical instructor in DMSE, fills in significant gaps in the inventory of organic compounds in the atmosphere. […]
[fusion_text]By Milani Chatterji-Len Over the past eight weeks, I have had the amazing opportunity to work at Imperial College of London in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As the program comes to a close, […]
[fusion_text]By Milani Chatterji-Len This summer, I am participating in the MIT-Imperial Exchange, in which I am conducting research in the Environmental and Water Resource Engineering section of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. There is a […]
By Christine Langston During my first week and my fourth week here in Santiago, I attended two ‘talleres,’ or workshops, put on by the Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunication (MTT, not to be confused with […]
[fusion_text]The Darwin Project, an alliance between oceanographers and microbiologists in CEE and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), received funding from the Simons Foundation to expand computing resources to model microbial communities. The […]
[fusion_text]New research from Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows that deadly heat waves could harm South Asia, the home to one-fifth of the world’s population. The research suggests that climate change may cause summer heat […]
[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 […]
[fusion_text]Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor Dara Entekhabi was recently awarded the Dave and Lucille Atlas Remote Sensing Prize from the American Meteorological Society for his scientific and technical leadership in providing remote sensing data and […]
[fusion_text]Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering Andrew Whittle and Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Paola Rizzoli led a research camp for MIT students, including CEE graduate student Paige Midstokke, rising senior Clio Macrakis […]
[fusion_text]By Milani Chatterji-Len As a rising third-year on the systems track, I am thrilled to be working in London on hydraulic modeling. My project is geared toward improving flood prediction in less developed countries in the […]
[fusion_text]By Abby Harvey This year, my summer revolves around points, colors, and math. In the morning, I take the train from point A to B on the red line, and each night before bed, I calculate […]
[fusion_text]By Eric Wong The Japanese aesthetic is unmistakable: minimalistic, functional, and balanced. And the ambience it creates equally distinct: calm, peaceful, and soothing. The parts of Kyoto built in the new millennium represent a nod to […]
