By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Recent research at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering suggests how aquatic plants in rivers and streams may play a major role in the health of large areas […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Recent research at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering suggests how aquatic plants in rivers and streams may play a major role in the health of large areas […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Maps of Cape Cod drawn over the last 150 years record major changes in the shoreline caused when storms pile up protective sand barriers or sweep them away. Without […]
Ph.D. student Rebecca Neumann is researching groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh. This month, Rebecca is in on site studying the role played by rice fields and ponds in the arsenic contamination problem. Read more. […]
Many graduate students in the environmental and water quality engineering track of the Civil and Environmental Engineering M.Eng. program spend IAP in the developing world conducting research that improves systems essential to good health: drinking water […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Many graduate students in the environmental and water quality engineering track of the Civil and Environmental Engineering M.Eng. program spend IAP in the developing world conducting research that improves […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers at MIT studying the architecture of proteins have finally explained why computer models of proteins’ behavior under mechanical duress differ dramatically from experimental observations. This work could have […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE alumnus Adil Najam, a lead author on two of the reports that garnered the Nobel Peace Prize for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will speak on […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Joseph M. Sussman, the JR East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division, is one of six MIT faculty members to be elected Fellows of […]
The American Geophysical Union will award Professor Rafael Bras the 2007 Robert E. Horton Medal at a ceremony in December, the AGU announced. An internationally recognized researcher in hydrology and hydroclimatology whose work encompasses many aspects […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering A committee of the National Research Council said in a report released yesterday that boosting ethanol production in the U.S. through increased corn crops nationwide without considering the quality […]
Excerpted from Seed Magazine. The full text of “Revolutionary Minds: The Ambassadors” appears in the October 2007 issue of Seed, on newsstands now. By Emily Anthes Modern science is necessarily international, and geographic borders play a […]
A CEE alumnus received the CNN Heroes award in July for his persistent hard work and ingenuity in providing sustainable electricity to isolated communities along Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast. Just after getting his S.M. degree from MIT […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Scientists at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology have for the first time recorded the entire genomic expression of both a […]
By Oral Buyukozturk Civil & Environmental Engineering The tragic total and instant collapse of the Interstate 35 highway bridge in Minneapolis should force us as a nation to make a careful reassessment of the methods we […]
London’s Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron met with MIT faculty, including half a dozen members of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Aug. 24 to discuss ways of reducing that city’s carbon dioxide emissions. Gavron has […]