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Research from Professor Jesse Kroll identifies previously unknown organic compounds in the atmosphere

September 4, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[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. […]

CEE receives top ranking from QS World University Rankings

March 8, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

The 2017 QS World University Rankings were recently released and CEE is ranked among the top. The department was named #1 for Civil and Structural Engineering and #3 for Environmental Science. QS World University Rankings are […]

Professor Jesse Kroll profiled on MIT News

February 1, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Jesse Kroll, Associate Professor of CEE and Chemistry, was profiled on MIT News for his work on the role of organic compounds in the air. Learn about how Kroll came to MIT and how his research […]

Professor Hemond highlighted for his work with Thoreau Bog in MIT Spectrum

December 16, 2016 | 2016 News | ceemit

[fusion_text]William E. Leonhard Professor Harold Hemond has studied Thoreau’s Bog, named after Henry David Thoreau, for four decades looking at airborne metals, nutrients, trace gases, and atmospheric acids released by society and analyzing the chemical footprint […]

Educating the Displaced

September 26, 2016 | News | ceemit

[fusion_text]When I was a refugee, education gave me hope. As a professor, I want to return the favor. When I was a teenager in 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, war broke out and changed everything. Our […]

Graduate student wins the ACS Environmental Chemistry award

August 25, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Course 1 graduate student Jennifer Apell was selected as one of the 2015 winners of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award – an award presented to graduate students at U.S. and […]

In honor of Hamlin Jennings

July 20, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Hamlin M. Jennings, adjunct professor in CEE and principal investigator in the Concrete Sustainability Hub, died on July 8 at the age of 68 after a battle with cancer. Jennings was a distinguished researcher and leader […]

J-WAFS awards $1.8 million in first round of seed-grant funding

July 8, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

MIT News Office Nine grants of $200,000 for two years have been awarded to researchers from 11 MIT departments. The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has announced its first […]

Oceanographer Mick Follows on how ocean physics and chemistry affect microbial diversity

June 1, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Plankton, one of the ocean’s smallest inhabitants and a creature vital to life on Earth, are routinely swept away by ocean currents in the form of large swirls (or rings) – as revealed in studies by international consortium […]