Assistant Professor Otto Cordero and researchers from his lab published new research that suggests that ecological interactions between bacteria on particles’ surfaces can impact the rates of carbon turnover in the ocean. The results were published […]
Institute Professor Penny Chisholm presented a TED Talk on “the tiny creature that secretly powers the planet,” prochlorococcus. Watch here. […]
By Amy Vogel ’20 After three great months living it up in Haifa at the Technion, I moved to Israel’s The-City-That-Never-Sleeps to live the modern-day high-tech Tel Aviv dream (well, for two months). Selfie on the […]
Graduate student Janelle Heslop was one of twenty students to be elected into the Switzer Fellowship Network. The Switzer Fellowship Program is a one-year fellowship for accomplished graduate students in New England and California with career […]
Professor Oral Buyukozturk received the 2018 George W. Housner Medal for Structural Control and Monitoring from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The medal was awarded for his “pioneering and transformative developments in video-based structural […]
Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet and can crawl, roll, jump, and snap together. A potential application of the technology is to use […]
In the Spring 2018 edition of MIT’s Spectrum, Donald and Martha Harleman Professor Heidi Nepf and Graduate Student Judy Qingjun Yang SM ’15 were profiled for their research on restoring and maintaining wetlands. Read more here. […]
By Amy Vogel ’20 I am writing this post while sitting at my desk on my last day of work at the Technion. I am sad to leave the Technion, but I am so happy that […]
CEE Research Scientist Jeremy Gregory, executive director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub), participated in a Q&A with U.S. News and World Report where he discussed the benefits of adopting hazard-resistant construction approaches. Read the article […]
Professor Franz-Josef Ulm was featured in a Boston Globe article about the Longfellow Bridge as construction comes to an end. In the article, Ulm notes that the Longfellow turned the Charles River into a “public oasis.” […]
From May 21- May 24, Graduate Students Andrew Lee and Adam Rosenfield were two of twenty selected to attend the Eno Center for Transportation’s 2018 Future Leaders Development Conference (LDC) in Washington D.C. The LDC gives […]
On May 17, the CEE community gathered to celebrate the class of 2018 and to recognize outstanding accomplishments from the past year. Department Head Markus Buehler announced the winners of the CEE Awards, including student, faculty, […]
Professor Charlie Harvey, Assistant Professor Dave Des Marais, Professor Dara Entekhabi, and Paul M Cook Career Development Assistant Professor Benedetto Marelli each received seed grant funding from the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security […]
Institute Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm received an honorary degree from Harvard University for her distinguished career and for her role in the discovery of Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organisms on Earth. Chisholm received […]
Graduate student Tiziana Smith SM ’16 was featured on MIT News for her research on water resources and food security in China. Smith has created a hydrological model that simulates the relationship between crop production and […]
