On Saturday, January 31, Professor Dara Entekhabi and NASA successfully launched their Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite from the Vandenburg Air Force Base, California at 6:22 am Pacific time. “The lift-off was flawless and the […]
Experimental results have shown that, despite significant defects at grain boundaries, the strength of polycrystalline graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material discovered recently, is comparable to that of the pristine defect-free material, although it is widespread knowledge […]
Each spring, CEE presents a number of awards to undergrads, grads, faculty and staff. This year three new awards will be added: the Juan Hermosilla ’57 Prize for exceptional talent at the intersection of mechanics, materials, […]
From May to July 2014, Professor Eduardo Kausel was an Alexander von Humboldt Scholar in Germany. He worked on soil dynamics problems at the Technical University Berlin, and met and discussed problems of common interest with […]
Enter the Second Annual Course 1 Video Competition and present an original one- to two-minute video that answers the question, “What is ONE@MIT research and its impact on society?” Prizes range from $1000 to $250, plus […]
During a NASA briefing on Jan. 8 about SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive), a new environmental monitoring satellite expected to launch on January 29, Professor Dara Entekhabi explained the many implications of soil moisture and the […]
As part of the MIT Climate Conversation Committee’s series of events, Dr. Larry Linden SM ’70 & PhD ’76 spoke on January 21 about the experiences and transformation that led him to launch an effort to […]
For the first time, research combining experimental work and detailed molecular simulations has revealed the complex role that water plays in collagen, a protein that is a component of tendons, bone, skin and other structural tissues. […]
Graduate student Jane Chui won an Outstanding Student Paper Award in hydrology at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Conference in San Francisco in December 2014. The paper, “Interface Evolution during Radial Miscible Viscous Fingering,” describes how […]
Since Professor Lydia Bourouiba’s research has shown that small droplets produced by sneezing and coughing could spread much farther than had been realized, MIT News asked her how the findings could apply to the Ebola epidemic […]
Anchor QEA, an environmental science and engineering consulting firm, selected Meng candidate Sara Greenberg as one of 10 graduate students around the country for the company’s 2015 Scholarship Program. All recipients must be engaged in research […]
Fleeing bitter winter weather in Cambridge, 22 undergrads flew to Hawaii on Jan. 13 for two weeks of environmental hands-on research on the Big Island. Professors Jesse Kroll, Colette Heald and Ben Kocar will supervise as […]
Unpleasant as the samples might be, water from sewers provides important information about the people who excrete it. Participating in the first formal effort by scientists and public health officials to take a sewage snapshot of […]
Understanding peoples’ travel activity patterns, and ideally understanding the motivations and choices underlying them, are at the heart of what transport planners do, writes World Bank blogger Shomik Mehndiratta. He describes work by Professor Marta Gonzalez […]
Julia Longmate, a junior, has been named one of the 35 new MIT undergraduate Burchard Scholars for 2015. The award honors sophomores and juniors who demonstrate academic excellence in the humanities, arts, and social sciences as […]
