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Marine bacteria’s mealtime dash is a swimming success

March 10, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Denise Brehm MIT Civil & Environmental Engineering Goldfish in an aquarium are able to dash after food flakes at mealtime, reaching them before they sink or are eaten by other fish. Researchers at MIT recently […]

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

March 4, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Microbes living in the oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth’s environment, but very little is known about their activities and how they work together to help control natural cycles of water, carbon and energy. […]

Solar heated water warms a Lesotho school

March 3, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Amy Mueller and Matt Orosz, graduate students in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, recently designed and installed a solar array used to provide hot water to a girls’ dormitory at a rural school in […]

CEE transportation modeling program will appear in ‘Modern Marvels’ episode

February 25, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Research by Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva will be featured in an episode of The History Channel’s “Modern Marvels,” scheduled to air Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. The episode, titled “Superhighways,” features a short interview with alumnus […]

Professor Sussman to chair ITS Advisory Committee

February 25, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

On Feb. 15, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration announced the selection of Joseph M. Sussman to chair DOT’s Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Advisory Committee. Sussman is the JR East Professor in […]

Protein’s strength lies in H-bond cooperation

February 14, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT reveal that the strength of a biological material like spider silk lies in the specific geometric configuration of structural proteins, which […]

Professor Cindy Barnhart named president of INFORMS

February 13, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) announced that Professor Cynthia Barnhart is president of the organization, effective Jan. 1, for a one-year term. Barnhart, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and […]

Elfatih Eltahir elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union

February 6, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Elfatih Eltahir has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an honor granted every year to only 0.1 percent of AGU’s 50,000 members. Fellows are elected based on their acknowledged eminence in the […]

MIT creates new center for Latin American logistics in Colombia

February 4, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics (directed by Professor Yossi Sheffi of Civil & Environmental Engineering and ESD) and the Colombia-based company LOGyCA have signed an agreement creating the Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation to […]

New MIT environmental research program seeks to monitor air and water quality continually, pervasively around the globe

January 31, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers from MIT and two Singaporean universities met on January 24-25 for an inaugural workshop to launch a bold new international research program called CENSAM. The program will develop […]

Cascading errors led to highway’s collapse

January 29, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering An extensive subway system with lines fanning out in many directions speeds transportation in small, crowded Singapore. On April 20, 2004, during construction for the new Circle line of […]

River plants may play major role in health of ocean coastal waters

January 29, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Recent research at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering suggests how aquatic plants in rivers and streams may play a major role in the health of large areas […]

With seawalls, beauty is in the eye of the holder

January 9, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Maps of Cape Cod drawn over the last 150 years record major changes in the shoreline caused when storms pile up protective sand barriers or sweep them away. Without […]

Tracing arsenic in Bangladesh groundwater

January 8, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Ph.D. student Rebecca Neumann is researching groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh. This month, Rebecca is in on site studying the role played by rice fields and ponds in the arsenic contamination problem. Read more. […]

The pursuit of clean drinking water and treated sewage

January 5, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Many graduate students in the environmental and water quality engineering track of the Civil and Environmental Engineering M.Eng. program spend IAP in the developing world conducting research that improves systems essential to good health: drinking water […]