By Cleverine Cong ’21 Last week, a group of 15 jetlagged rising sophomores arrived in Rome for the Course 1 experience of a lifetime – ONE MA3. Here are a few things, not related to research, […]
By Cleverine Cong ’21 Last week, a group of 15 jetlagged rising sophomores arrived in Rome for the Course 1 experience of a lifetime – ONE MA3. Here are a few things, not related to research, […]
By Rachel Weissman ’21 This morning we traveled to the Parco Degli Acquedotti. This park, located 9km outside of Rome, contains the largest collection of intact Roman aqueducts. As we walked around the sunny park, archeologist […]
By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today began with a lecture on geo polymers, limestones, and ancient building materials by the revered Gilberto Quarneti. We learned the steps to make limestone and some of the history behind how […]
[fusion_text]By Amber VanHemel ’19 After a 45-minute drive, we pulled up to a cattle farm in Woodstock, Australia. However, this is not your typical farm…it is actually a research facility that belongs to Commonwealth Scientific and […]
Professor Oral Buyukozturk received the 2018 George W. Housner Medal for Structural Control and Monitoring from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The medal was awarded for his “pioneering and transformative developments in video-based structural […]
By Sophie Cohen ’21 The Castle Caetani has been our home for the past week, and we’re finally getting used to living in a medieval castle. The girls live down the steps toward the stables, and […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 The MIT Great Barrier Initiative team began working on projects at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) on Tuesday. By the end of the week, research had been initiated on the […]
By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today we began by touring the Ninfa Gardens, which was built on a medieval city that was destroyed in 1382. Our guide explained how the city of Ninfa was a linking point […]
[fusion_text]By Zoe Lallas ’20 After traveling for almost 48 hours to get from Chicago to the other side of the world, I met up with the other MIT students to finally unite the MIT Great Barrier […]
By Rachel Weissman ’21 After a weekend of kayaking and beaches, we began our real work on Monday, June 18. In the morning we received a guest lecture from Diego Ronchi, a doctorate student at the […]
By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today it seemed as if we were adopted by an extended Italian family – the family who operates the Gruppo Canoisti Pontini, aka Area.3, in Sermoneta. They took us trekking up to […]
By Patricia Gao ’21 Trees yawned. Water sparkled. Flowers bloomed, in the midst of clouds of butterflies. All of it happened around, over, and through the remains of a medieval village. This was the most romantic […]
By Sophie Cohen ’21 A metal triangle hangs on the side of the Caetani Castle’s kitchen exterior, and the chefs’ children hit it with a hammer to signal meal times. This is how our day began, […]
[fusion_text] By Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 We have just arrived in Townsville, Australia in order to begin a new research and engineering project in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Marine Science and James Cook University on […]
In the Spring 2018 edition of MIT’s Spectrum, Donald and Martha Harleman Professor Heidi Nepf and Graduate Student Judy Qingjun Yang SM ’15 were profiled for their research on restoring and maintaining wetlands. Read more here. […]