Course 1 seniors will demonstrate CLAIRITY — the air-quality sensor network they designed, built and deployed across campus — in a public presentation Tuesday, May 6 at 4 p.m. in Room 46-3002. The network is made […]
Course 1 seniors will demonstrate CLAIRITY — the air-quality sensor network they designed, built and deployed across campus — in a public presentation Tuesday, May 6 at 4 p.m. in Room 46-3002. The network is made […]
Two projects demonstrating the exciting opportunities that arise by combining the diverse research interests of faculty in CEE have been selected to receive inaugural CEE cross-disciplinary seed funding. The program provides a one-year graduate student fellowship […]
The department requests nominations for the department’s annual awards, including several new awards for undergraduate leadership and community, best doctoral thesis, postdoctoral scholars, and staff excellence. The deadline is Friday, May 2. The awards recognize the […]
Two projects demonstrating the exciting opportunities that arise by combining the diverse research interests of faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) have been selected to receive inaugural CEE cross-disciplinary seed funding. The […]
Course 1 seniors presented work from the capstone class at the Cambridge Science Festival’s Science Carnival held Saturday, April 19 at the Cambridge Public Library. Zach Balgobin, Sydney Beasley, Derek Chang and Paula Gonzalez showed their […]
Professor Sallie Chisholm and former postdoctoral associate Nadav Kashtan performed a cell-by-cell genomic analysis on a wild population of the marine microbe Prochlorococcus living in a milliliter — less than a quarter teaspoon — of ocean […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering The smallest, most abundant marine microbe, Prochlorococcus, is a photosynthetic bacteria species essential to the marine ecosystem. An estimated billion billion billion of the single-cell creatures live in the […]
Professor Carolina Osorio was awarded the 100 Colombians Award by the Fusionarte Association of Colombia. The award recognizes the work of Colombians who excel in their fields and live outside the country. Osorio was honored for […]
Shruti Sharma, a junior in materials science and engineering, and running mate 1C junior Billy Ndengeyingoma were elected president and vice president of the MIT Undergraduate Association in March. Ndengeyingoma says his primary focus as vice […]
CEE graduate student Thomas Petersen is running the Boston Marathon with the MIT Strong team — not to compete, he says, but to honor the memory of Sean Collier, the MIT police officer who was slain […]
Professor Markus Buehler, head of CEE, will receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Journal of Applied Mechanics Award honoring the best paper published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics during the two calendar years preceding […]
CEE department head Professor Markus Buehler sent an email yesterday to the community requesting nominations for the department’s annual awards, including several new awards for undergraduate leadership and community, best doctoral thesis, postdoctoral scholars, and staff […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE graduate student Thomas Petersen has been running competitively for a decade. He placed 13th in his first half-marathon at age 17 in Phoenix, competed in NCAA Division I […]
Khalid Jawed, a graduate student from Pedro Reis’ research group, won the Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics’ Best Student Speaker Award at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Denver, Colo., for […]
CEE graduate student Philip William Kreycik led an MIT team that won a Best Proposal award in the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge. Kreycik, who is getting a dual master’s degree in city planning and […]