Senior Scott Landers (1E) has been awarded scholarships from the Rhode Island Consulting Engineers (RICE) and the New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA). RICE is a nonprofit professional organization representing independent consulting engineering firms. RICE awards […]
An image by graduate student Birendra Jha was selected to appear on “Back Scatter,” the back cover of Physics Today, in the January 2012 issue. The image, which also appeared last fall in Wired-UK and Discover […]
While people often say that the Internet has flattened the world allowing social networks to spring up overnight, independent of geography or socioeconomic status, new research suggests otherwise. Professor Marta González and graduate student Jameson Toole studied the “contagion process” of the microblogging […]
Since most of the world’s governments have not yet enacted regulations to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, some experts have advocated the development of technologies to remove carbon dioxide directly from the air. But a new […]
As the world’s population continues to expand, our natural resources will become increasingly strained. In an effort to find sustainable solutions for the planet’s growing population while minimizing environmental impacts, MIT’s Environmental Research Council (ERC) — […]
Samar Malek, a Ph.D. candidate in CEE, was named the 2012 Marshall Sherfield Fellow. The fellowship is awarded to one American scientist or engineer annually by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, allowing the recipient to undertake […]
An image from a Dec. 8, 2011 Nature paper authored by graduate students Chris Smillie, Mark Smith and Jonathan Friedman, postdoctoral associate Otto Cordero, alumnus Lawrence David Ph.D. ’11 and Professor Eric Alm appears in a […]
Doctoral student Hamed Alemohammad — who works with Professors Dara Entekhabi and Dennis McLaughlin to combine different types of satellite-derived rainfall data in order to improve the accuracy of rainstorm estimation models — has been selected […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering We’ve all heard it: The Internet has flattened the world, allowing social networks to spring up overnight, independent of geography or socioeconomic status. Who needs face time with the […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure […]
Charles “Hank” Spaulding ’51, a devoted alumnus and longtime member of the MIT Corporation, died Thursday, Nov. 24 at age 84. Spaulding worked for many years as a real estate developer and was co-founder of Spaulding […]
A paper co-authored by postdoctoral fellow Vitaly Belik, a member of Professor Marta González‘s research group, was recently published in the first issue (August 2011) of Physical Review X, the journal of the American Physical Society, […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Complex networks as dissimilar in size, age and character as the metabolic processes of a yeast cell, the World Wide Web, and the airline system of the United States […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Much as people can exchange information instantaneously in the digital age, bacteria associated with humans and their livestock appear to freely and rapidly exchange genetic material related to human […]
When President Sebastián Piñera of Chile visited campus Friday, Sept. 23 to meet with MIT President Susan Hockfield, tour the Media Lab and address Chilean students in the Boston area, it was CEE Professor Eduardo Kausel […]
