Civil and Environmental Engineering

Buyukozturk elected to Scotland’s national academy

May 26, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

In recognition of his multidisciplinary work in fundamental fields, including the mechanics of structures and materials for sustainable civil infrastructures, Professor Oral Buyukozturk has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s […]

President Obama, Ed DeLong share speaking agenda at NAS meeting

May 19, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Ed DeLong was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in April 2008 and attended the induction ceremony at this year’s NAS annual meeting in Washington, DC, April 25-27. DeLong gave a […]

Mueller and Orosz win special EPA grant for sustainable programs

May 19, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

CEE doctoral students Amy Mueller and Matt Orosz recently won an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant for economically sustainable programs that protect the environment. Mueller and Orosz — members of the research group of Professor Harold […]

Professor helps launch new scholarly journal

May 18, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Assistant Professor Markus Buehler is executive editor of a new journal launched March 2009: The International Journal of Applied Mechanics (IJAM). IJAM focuses on innovative research in mechanics including solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and material […]

Brehm receives School of Engineering Infinite Mile Award

May 18, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Denise Brehm, Senior Communications Officer for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received an Infinite Mile Award for Excellence from the MIT School of Engineering (SOE) last month. The Infinite Mile Awards recognize outstanding contributions […]

CEE’s Matt Orosz wins Fulbright scholarship

May 13, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Graduate student Matt Orosz is one of 10 MIT students receiving a Fulbright scholarship for study abroad in the 2009-2010 academic year. Prior to beginning his graduate studies in CEE, Orosz lived in Lesotho for two […]

MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch

May 13, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch

May 13, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

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 […]

Bras presents MIT’s Killian Lecture

May 8, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

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. […]

Markus Buehler work featured in Nature and Nature Materials

May 6, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

Phil Gschwend receives Institute’s Perkins Award

May 6, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

Teams mentored by Murcott win IDEAS awards

May 6, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

CEE sophomore Connie Lu named an MIT Art Scholar

May 5, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

CEE website recognized by Webby Awards

April 22, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

Sinan Keten receives materials research award

April 22, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]