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CEE Profiles: Building a community for all

November 4, 2020 | CEE Profiles | Zach Goodale

Luke Bastian holds his Navajo cultural heritage close to him wherever he goes. The child of a German father and Navajo mother, Bastian spent a lot of time visiting his relatives living in the Four Corners […]

CEE undergrad shares internship experience with World Bank

August 27, 2020 | CEE Profiles | Zach Goodale

Natalie Northrup ’22 is an incoming junior in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Working from home is a challenge. I made it through the end of spring semester and I will make it […]

Engineering for good

July 9, 2020 | CEE Profiles | CEE Chief Editor

Md Sami Hasnine, is in the business of understanding people. From his research developing and building predictive models of human behavior, to his work in MIT’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion community, the CEE postdoc has displayed […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Home, Home on the Range, where the Cows and the Engineers Play

June 24, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Amber VanHemel ’19 After a 45-minute drive, we pulled up to a cattle farm in Woodstock, Australia. However, this is not your typical farm…it is actually a research facility that belongs to Commonwealth Scientific and […]

Research from Professor Franz-Josef Ulm featured in Forbes

March 9, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

CEE receives top ranking from QS World University Rankings

March 2, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

Research from Professor Franz-Josef Ulm and research scientist Roland Pellenq shows city arrangement impacts the heat build-up of cities

February 22, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

CEE Research Affiliate Hao Sun named one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in Science

November 14, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

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MIT-Imperial Exchange: Points, Colors, and Math

July 25, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Abby Harvey This year, my summer revolves around points, colors, and math. In the morning, I take the train from point A to B on the red line, and each night before bed, I calculate […]

Institute Professor Penny Chisholm profiled by Science Magazine

March 9, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

Institute Professor Penny Chisholm was recently profiled by Science Magazine for her long and esteemed career researching Prochlorococcus and for her significant contribution towards women’s equality in higher education. Read the full profile here. […]

Senior Julia Heyman wins 2017 Carroll L. Wilson Award, will conduct research in Indonesia

March 7, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

Senior Julia Heyman was recently awarded the 2017 Caroll L. Wilson Award, a prize that funds a year of research. She will travel to Indonesia after graduation and will be pursuing a project on the implementation […]

Dara Entekhabi elected to the National Academy of Engineering

February 10, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor of CEE and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Dara Entekhabi was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his leadership in the hydrologic sciences. More information about […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao creates hydrogel robots

February 1, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Associate Professor of CEE and Mechanical Engineering Xuanhe Zhao and Mechanical Engineering graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk have created gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The robots are almost invisible […]

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 Penny Chisholm couples research with writing environmental children’s books

January 31, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Institute Professor Penny Chisholm is featured on MIT News for her environmental children’s book series. Chisholm partnered with award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Molly Bang to create the “Sunlight Series,” a collection of four books […]