Elfatih eltahir Archives

Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s group published new research that shows how to select village locations to prevent the spread of malaria in Africa

September 14, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former CEE graduate student Dr. Noriko Endo published a study on how wind direction directly effects the spread of malaria at the village scale. The findings were published in The […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir hosts workshop on “the Future of the Nile Water”

May 11, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Elfatih Eltahir, the Breene M. Kerr Professor of Hydrology and Climate, hosted an international workshop at MIT on “the Future of the Nile Water,” on April 26 and 27. At the workshop, Eltahir presented a […]

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir featured in Science Magazine

February 16, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

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 shows intensive agriculture has impact on summer climate in Midwest United States

February 13, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir participates on expert panel at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health

October 25, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]On October 23, Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir spoke on a panel about the impact of climate change on malaria at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Eltahir discussed his research into the various […]

New Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows intense heat waves could harm South Asia

August 2, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]New research from Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows that deadly heat waves could harm South Asia, the home to one-fifth of the world’s population. The research suggests that climate change may cause summer heat […]

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offering new minors, subjects this fall

June 20, 2016 | 2016 News Releases | ceemit

Marilyn Siderwicz | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering CEE creates three new undergraduate minors, adds new subjects to extend choice and opportunity. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), also known as Course 1, […]

CEE Announces Three New Professorships

May 19, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

Also effective July 1, Professors Elfatih Eltahir, Benedetto Marelli, and Admir Masic will hold new institute-wide professorship title. Professor Eltahir will hold the institute-wide Breene M. Kerr Professorship for a five-year term. Marelli will hold the Paul […]

CEE announces three new professorships

May 19, 2016 | 2016 News Releases | ceemit

Marilyn Siderwicz | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Effective July 1, three Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) professors will receive named professorships in recognition for their important contributions to the department and the […]

Joining efforts to build a more sustainable future

March 17, 2016 | 2016 News Releases | ceemit

Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering Sixth Annual CEE Research Speed Dating showcases research to promote collaboration Approaching a global challenge from the bottom up often results in transformative large-scale impact. Such is the theme that […]

Elfatih Eltahir on environmental management to combat Zika

February 29, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

Associate Department Head Elfatih Eltahir has long been interested in the Aedes aegypti mosquito — responsible for the devastating virus, Dengue, and now Zika. In a Q&A with the MIT School of Engineering, Eltahir explains how his work […]

3Q: Elfatih Eltahir on what malaria and Dengue can tell us about Zika

February 23, 2016 | 2016 News Releases | ceemit

School of Engineering Environmental management approaches may be key in combating mosquito-borne infectious diseases. Like many engineers at MIT, Elfatih A. B. Eltahir builds models. But his models, numerically heavy and integrating satellite, atmospheric, and field […]

Professors assert climate change knowledge in Boston Globe letter

December 16, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On Dec. 13, a group of MIT professors – including Associate Department Head Elfatih Eltahir and the Director of Environmental Solutions Initiative John Fernandez – penned an opinion letter to the Boston Globe asserting that climate scientists […]

MIT Water Summit discusses water management in a changing environment

December 7, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

From Nov. 13-14, an MIT Water Club team hosted their annual Water Summit, which resulted in a vibrant discussion of how realities like a changing climate, population growth, rapid development, and pervasive urbanization provide an unprecedented […]

Learning from urban wastewater

November 6, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

An MIT team, along with researchers from Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and Kuwait University, was awarded a $4 million grant for a project titled “The Underworlds Project: a Smart Sewage Infrastructure for Kuwait.” The study […]