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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 […]

Separating the good from the bad: Two-handed microbes point to new method for isolating harmful forms of chemicals

April 15, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Roman Stocker, graduate student Marcos, and colleagues at Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed brethren, impelling the microbes in […]

Separating the good from the bad: Two-handed microbes point to new method for isolating harmful forms of chemicals

April 15, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Scientists at MIT and Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed brethren, impelling the […]

Steel Bridge Team takes 1st place at Regionals

April 13, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

The MIT Steel Bridge Team placed first overall and won the Structural Efficiency Award at the regional competition April 5 at Wentworth Institute of Technology. The team placed first or second in every category of the […]

Sussman explains why high-speed rail and congestion pricing are needed in the U.S.

April 13, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division (ESD), appears in Good magazine’s transportation issue. In an interview with Siobhan O’Connor, he explains why the […]

Sussman receives ESD’s Martore Award

April 13, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division (ESD), received the 2008 Joseph A. Martore (1975) Excellence in Teaching Award at the Annual Charles L. […]

Course 1E junior selected as Burchard Scholar

April 13, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

CEE junior S. Balaji Mani is one of 26 MIT sophomores and juniors selected as Burchard Scholars in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences for 2009. The award recognizes students who demonstrate unusual abilities […]

John Germaine receives ASTM’s Award of Merit

March 30, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

The American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) presented its highest honor, the Award of Merit, at a ceremony in June 2008 to John Germaine S.M. ’80, Sc.D. ‘82, a senior research associate in the […]