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Short course on computational technologies

March 30, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Markus Buehler, graduate student Sinan Keten and sophomore Britni Ihle, along with nine other MIT students and faculty members, spent spring break in Aachen, Germany, at a week-long course: “The 2009 Aachen-MIT Spring School on […]

CEE’s Amy Mueller and Heidi Nepf in MIT Spectrvm

March 30, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Two CEE people were included in the Spring 2009 issue of MIT Spectrvm: Professor Heidi Nepf and graduate student Amy Mueller. Mueller’s work with the Solar Turbine Group is featured in the cover story, “Here Comes […]

The greening of Earth: Children’s book illuminates photosynthesis

February 28, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Using green and blue and yellow, too, an MIT scientist and a Caldecott Award-winning author/illustrator have teamed up to produce a lavishly illustrated children’s book that explains how the sun kindles life on Earth through photosynthesis. […]

The greening of Earth: Children’s book illuminates photosynthesis

February 25, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Using green and blue and yellow, too, an MIT scientist and a Caldecott Award-winning author/illustrator have teamed up to produce a lavishly illustrated children’s book that explains how the […]

CEE research could help predict harmful algal blooms

February 19, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Not far beneath the ocean’s surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone: a sharp variation in marine currents that traps billions […]

CEE research could help predict harmful algal blooms like red tide

February 19, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Not far beneath the ocean’s surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone: a sharp […]

Harvey receives Hubbert Award honoring his scientific contributions

February 3, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Charles Harvey, the Doherty Associate Professor in CEE, received the 2008 M. King Hubbert Award from the National Ground Water Association at its annual meeting in December. The award acknowledges major science or engineering contributions to […]

Ben-Akiva awarded honorary degree from Sweden’s KTH

February 3, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Moshe Ben-Akiva, the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering received an honorary doctorate on Nov. 21 from KTH (the Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden. The degree recognizes Ben-Akiva as a “visionary […]

Simplicity is crucial to design optimization at nanoscale

February 3, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

MIT researchers who study the structure of protein-based materials with the aim of learning the key to their lightweight and robust strength have discovered that the particular arrangement of proteins that produces the sturdiest product is […]

Simplicity is crucial to design optimization at nanoscale

February 3, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering MIT researchers who study the structure of protein-based materials with the aim of learning the key to their lightweight and robust strength have discovered that the particular arrangement of […]

MIT software to improve traffic management tested in Portugal

January 29, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

As part of the MIT Portugal Program, researchers from MIT and Portugal have made progress in developing traffic simulation software that could make it easier for traffic managers to analyze road conditions and ease congestion in […]

A better way to pinpoint underground oil reserves: CEE mapping technology could make oil extraction more efficient

January 16, 2009 | 2009 News in Brief | ceemit

Picture this: an accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide engineers’ efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells where it can be pumped out for storage or […]

CEE mapping technology could make oil extraction more efficient

January 16, 2009 | 2009 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Picture this: an accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide engineers’ efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells where it […]

How to fight malaria by changing the environment

December 23, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

“It has long been known that malaria can be fought by draining swamps and paving streets,” Donald McNeil Jr. writes in the Dec. 22 issue of the New York Times. “But a new study by scientists […]

MIT finds climate change could impact water supplies dramatically

December 17, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

It’s no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis led by MIT researchers has found that the changes […]