Professor Harry Hemond and co-author Liz Fechner were awarded the 2015 Texty Textbook Excellence Award in the Physical Sciences category for edition III of their recent book, Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment, published by […]
“There’s Something in the Air,” a feature about Professor Colette Heald, was a headline story in MIT News Spotlight on April 28 describing her atmospheric chemistry career. The article describes her route to MIT and notes […]
Research Scientist Zhao Qin and McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler received a Most Cited Paper Award for their co-authored paper, “Robustness-Strength Performance of Hierarchical Alpha-Helical Protein Filaments” published in the International Journal […]
Colette Heald studies atmospheric gases and particles, and how they affect air quality and climate. Winds that blow across the Sahara desert in North Africa pick up particles of soil and sand, and typically carry them […]
Community members are working on fundraising efforts in the wake of recent quakes in Ecuador and Japan. The recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Ecuador on April 16 killed at least 600 people, injured at least […]
Retrofitting a small portion of buildings would have big impact on cities’ carbon emissions. Many programs encourage owners of homes and other buildings to improve their energy efficiency, sometimes offering substantial subsidies or tax incentives for […]
New research shows how to identify buildings where retrofitting for energy efficiency will have the biggest impact on a city’s overall greenhouse gas emissions. The findings, which require only minimal information about the buildings and their […]
Professor Otto X. Cordero and other Ecuadorian-natives of the MIT community are helping lead recent earthquake relief efforts by publicizing groups accepting donations. Speaking about the recent Ecuadorian quakes, Professor Cordero says “Many of these towns […]
Professor Serguei Saavedra, working with a team of European ecology researchers, highlighted some of the major processes shaping Poland’s Bialoweiza Forest’s delicate biodiversity. The paper, Seasonal Species Interactions Minimize the Impact of Species Turnover on the Likelihood […]
Senior Lecturer Fred Salvucci’s recent interview by NPR Here and Now host Jeremy Hobson aired Wednesday, April 13. The feature, “Public Transportation In America: How It Stalled And Where It’s Going,” describes how fifty years ago […]
On April 12, Professor Bourouiba spoke at MIT’s forward-looking symposium, Frontiers of the Future. She told the audience that among the problems the world faces is the emergence — and sometimes the re-emergence — of deadly […]
Quantitative study of Poland’s Bialowieza Forest highlights processes shaping species coexistence and potential impacts of deforestation. Marilyn Siderwicz | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Białowieża Forest in Poland has been in the news lately […]
New theory, inspired by chocolate coatings, predicts thickness of thin shells Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office View the video. Since the 1600s, chocolatiers have been perfecting the art of the bonbon, passing down techniques for […]
Researchers in Professor Pedro Reis’s lab, in collaboration with a team from EPFL in Switzerland, have developed a rapid fabrication technique and a theory that accurately predicts the final thickness of a shell of a known […]
By Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering New fieldwork program in civil and environmental engineering takes students to Italy for a lesson in ancient infrastructure and materials. As durable infrastructure, material innovation, and global sustainability develop […]
