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Water management in a changing environment

December 4, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT Water Summit presents insights, innovations, and solutions to protect our world’s most abundant natural resource. Amid a changing climate, population growth, rapid development, and pervasive urbanization, an unprecedented threat […]

Environment, infrastructure, and people

November 6, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty discuss interdisciplinary research and educational initiatives in the CEE New Research Alumni Breakfast. On Oct. 21, alumni, students, faculty, and staff from the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering […]

Professor Osorio strengthens connections within MIT community

October 19, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On October 7, Professor Carolina Osorio presented to the MIT Employee Resources Group at a luncheon organized in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage month. The event was an opportunity for MIT diverse staff to learn about […]

Graduate student wins the ACS Environmental Chemistry award

August 25, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Course 1 graduate student Jennifer Apell was selected as one of the 2015 winners of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award – an award presented to graduate students at U.S. and […]

Colette Heald awarded AGU James Macelwane Medal

July 29, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor in civil and environmental engineering and earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences will be honored at an awards ceremony in December. Colette Heald, the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor […]

J-WAFS awards $1.8 million in first round of seed-grant funding

July 8, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

MIT News Office Nine grants of $200,000 for two years have been awarded to researchers from 11 MIT departments. The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has announced its first […]

Sustainability of the Built Environment

May 8, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Specializing in mechanics, the durability of construction materials, and sound design, CEE Professor Oral Buyukozturk has catalyzed several CEE multidisciplinary ventures – all to advance sustainable designs for infrastructure. One project he leads, the Sustainability of Kuwait’s […]

Course 1 Undergraduates Publish Study on the Sulfur Emissions from Hawaiian Volcano Kilauea

April 3, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

A recent study published by 28 Course 1 undergraduates investigates the atmospheric pollutant mix emitted by the active Hawaiian shield volcano Kilauea. In coordination with the 2012 and 2013 expeditions of TREX, the group of students and 11 […]

Study Environment & Sustainability in Brazil and then in Germany

February 21, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Advanced undergraduate and Master’s students interested in a summer abroad this year, studying the key factors required for sustainable cities, should apply for the Environment & Sustainability Fellowship by March 1, 2015. From June to July, […]

Marta Gonzalez Promoted to Associate Professor

February 13, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Assistant Professor Marta Gonzalez has been promoted to associate professor without tenure, effective July 1st, 2015. Gonzalez works in urban computing with a specialized interest in the intersections of people with the built environment and their […]

Exploring Elusive Details in Ocean Microbiome

September 12, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

Professors Edward DeLong, Penny (Sallie) Chisholm and Mick Follows are among the eight founders of the Simons Foundation’s new Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE), a five-year program centered at the University of Hawaii […]