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MIT-Imperial Exchange: Exploring the city through field research

July 28, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Milani Chatterji-Len As a rising third-year on the systems track, I am thrilled to be working in London on hydraulic modeling. My project is geared toward improving flood prediction in less developed countries in the […]

New research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows Nile River to experience greater variability

May 1, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

A new study from Breene M. Kerr Professor of Hydrology and Climate Elfatih Eltahir and postdoc Mohamed Siam shows that the flow of the Nile River will experience greater variability, including more droughts and floods, as […]

Frank Perkins, professor emeritus, dies at 82

March 15, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

Frank E. Perkins, professor emeritus of CEE, former CEE department head, associate provost and dean for graduate education at MIT, died March 5 at age 82 following a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. The major portion […]

Stories from the swamp

February 29, 2016 | 2016 News Releases | ceemit

Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate student Alison Hoyt gets knee deep in the exploration of carbon cycling in the peat swamp forests of Borneo. Imagine a two-hour boat ride through the dark waters of […]

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 […]

Dara Entekhabi receives the prestigious Hydrologic Sciences Award

September 30, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Dara Entekhabi has been selected by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to receive the 2015 Hydrologic Sciences Award. Entekhabi is widely regarded as a leader in the exploration of the intricate processes that occur at […]