On Dec. 13, a group of MIT professors – including Associate Department Head Elfatih Eltahir and the Director of Environmental Solutions Initiative John Fernandez – penned an opinion letter to the Boston Globe asserting that climate scientists […]
Develop and pitch your technology, product, or service aimed at solving a water-related problem to the 2016 MIT Water Innovation Prize for the chance to win $30,000 worth of innovation grants. The short statement of intent […]
MIT Transit Lab On October 29-30 the MIT Transit Group hosted its sixth Transit Leaders Roundtable. The two-day event — co-sponsored by Transport for London, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston, and the Mass Transit Railway […]
Marilyn Siderwicz Civil and Environmental Engineering Eight real-world industry challenges fuel teams’ competitive spirit and impressive results. While government leaders tackle long-term climate and energy issues on a global scale, the MIT community and others recently […]
One former and one current graduate student were selected to receive the 2015 Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award for best theses in Policy and Planning, given annually by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). The […]
From Nov. 13-14, an MIT Water Club team hosted their annual Water Summit, which resulted in a vibrant discussion of how realities like a changing climate, population growth, rapid development, and pervasive urbanization provide an unprecedented […]
On Dec. 2 at the 2015 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Professor Xuanhe Zhao was named the recipient of the 2015 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award for a paper entitled, “Predicting fracture energies and […]
On Dec. 2 at the 2015 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Professor Xuanhe Zhao was named the recipient of the 2015 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award for a paper entitled, “Predicting fracture energies and […]
MIT News Office Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate […]
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 […]
On Dec. 2 from 1-3 pm in 1-050, join us for the opportunity to see how the student experiences in subject 1.101 (Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design) translate to real world problems and solutions. […]
On Dec. 3, mentors seeking freshmen mentees for the Course 1 mini-UROP (1.097, 6 units) will pitch their individual research through lightening presentations from 4:30-6 pm in 56-154. In this year’s mini-UROP, taking place during IAP, […]
On Jan. 29 from 11 am – 6 pm, CEE Professor Serguei Saavedra and Professor Jeff Gore of the department of physics will co-host the first MIT Meeting on Quantitative Ecology. This initial meeting strives to […]
The long-term confinement of nuclear waste is a primary challenge for the nuclear industry. Now, a new study co-authored by postdoc Lucile Dezerald, visiting scientist Andres Saul, senior research scientist Roland JM Pellenq, and Professor Franz-Josef Ulm, offers […]
On Nov. 16, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) announced its 2016 class of student fellows. Among the four new selected fellows is Sam Silva, a graduate student in Professor Colette Heald’s group focusing on atmospheric chemistry […]
