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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 […]

The pursuit of clean drinking water and treated sewage: helping refugees in Thailand and residents in Honduras

January 5, 2008 | 2008 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering 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 […]

Speed plays crucial role in breaking protein’s H-bonds

October 30, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers at MIT studying the architecture of proteins have finally explained why computer models of proteins’ behavior under mechanical duress differ dramatically from experimental observations. This work could have […]

CEE alum credited with Nobel Peace Prize work will speak at MIT

October 29, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE alumnus Adil Najam, a lead author on two of the reports that garnered the Nobel Peace Prize for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will speak on […]

Joseph Sussman named AAAS Fellow

October 26, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Joseph M. Sussman, the JR East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division, is one of six MIT faculty members to be elected Fellows of […]

Rafael Bras to receive AGU’s Horton Medal

October 15, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

The American Geophysical Union will award Professor Rafael Bras the 2007 Robert E. Horton Medal at a ceremony in December, the AGU announced. An internationally recognized researcher in hydrology and hydroclimatology whose work encompasses many aspects […]

Increase in corn ethanol production could prove costly

October 11, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering A committee of the National Research Council said in a report released yesterday that boosting ethanol production in the U.S. through increased corn crops nationwide without considering the quality […]

Revolutionary Minds: The Ambassadors

October 1, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

Excerpted from Seed Magazine. The full text of “Revolutionary Minds: The Ambassadors” appears in the October 2007 issue of Seed, on newsstands now. By Emily Anthes Modern science is necessarily international, and geographic borders play a […]

CEE alumnus harnesses the wind in Nicaragua

September 18, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

A CEE alumnus received the CNN Heroes award in July for his persistent hard work and ingenuity in providing sustainable electricity to isolated communities along Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast. Just after getting his S.M. degree from MIT […]

Small-scale parasitic battles may have epic evolutionary proportions

September 5, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Scientists at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology have for the first time recorded the entire genomic expression of both a […]

Op-Ed: High-tech inspections essential for nation’s aging infrastructure

September 4, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Oral Buyukozturk Civil & Environmental Engineering The tragic total and instant collapse of the Interstate 35 highway bridge in Minneapolis should force us as a nation to make a careful reassessment of the methods we […]

London’s deputy mayor meets with CEE faculty

August 30, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

London’s Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron met with MIT faculty, including half a dozen members of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Aug. 24 to discuss ways of reducing that city’s carbon dioxide emissions. Gavron has […]

MIT probes secret of bone’s strength

August 24, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Scientists and engineers are eager to understand the secret behind bone’s lightweight toughness so they can mimic it in the design of new materials, but experimental studies have revealed […]

Be still my beating heart: Researchers solve mystery of the throbbing drop of oil

July 16, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Hey kids! Try this at home. Pour clean water onto a small plate. Wait for all the ripples to stop. Then, mix a small amount of mineral oil with […]