Institute Professor Penny Chisholm was featured in the “Storied Women of MIT” video series for Women’s History Month. Chisholm is highlighted for her role in discovering Prochlorococcus, the smallest, most abundant photosynthetic organism. The series was […]
Research from Professor Franz-Josef Ulm and research scientist Roland Pellenq was featured in Forbes. The pair found that cities with grid-like designs have more heat buildup than cities with more chaotic layouts, making these cities hotter […]
The 2018 QS World University Rankings were recently released and CEE is ranked among the top. The department was named number one for Civil and Structural Engineering and number three for Environmental Science. MIT was ranked […]
Assistant Professor Lydia Bourouiba is featured in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s series “Breakthrough: Portraits of Women in Science,” as part of a mini-series which is to be screened in theaters across the country. The Science […]
Professor David Simchi-Levi is leading a multiyear collaboration between MIT and JDA Software to advance intelligent supply chains. The collaboration aims to leverage machine learning and optimization to create customer experience and improve supply chain performance. […]
Research from Associate Professor Jesse Kroll and former postdoc Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, now an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, tracked the reactions of organic molecules as they react in the air. The […]
Research from Professor Franz-Josef Ulm and research scientist Roland Pellenq shows city arrangement impacts the heat build-up of cities, a phenomenon referred to as the “heat island effect.” The researchers found that cities with more grid-like […]
The Laboratory for Multiscale Characterization and Materials Design, led by Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, was featured in The Tech. Graduate student Linda Seymour was interviewed for the profile and spoke […]
Paul M. Cook Career Development Professor Benedetto Marelli received the 2018 Young Investigator Award from the Department of the Navy’s Office of Naval Research. The award can be used to support laboratory equipment, stipends and scholarships, […]
Associate Professor and Associate Department Head of CEE Colette Heald participated in the Global Food+ symposium on February 16. Heald spoke about the impact of particulate matter on crops, particularly maize, wheat and rice. The symposium […]
Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former postdoc Ross Alter was featured in Science Magazine. The news article about the CEE study, entitled “The United States’s Corn Belt is making its own weather,” discusses how agriculture had a […]
Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former postdoc Ross Alter shows that intensive agriculture has an impact on summer climate in the Midwestern United States. Eltahir and Alter demonstrated that there was a significant empirical association […]
Assistant Professor Ben Kocar led a group of students to Hawaii this Independent Activities Period (IAP) to conduct environmental research as part of CEE’s Traveling Research Environmental eXperiences (TREX) program. The students were tasked with executing […]
Assistant Professor Desiree Plata and the Nepf Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab were featured in a video from the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI). The video gives an overview of ESI at MIT and announces the environmental sustainability […]
By Amy Vogel ‘20 This past month has been absolutely amazing. Last Friday was the last day of my externship at Terreform, so I thought I would highlight my top five experiences at the externship. 5) […]
