Senior lecturer Susan Murcott gave a keynote speech at the World Science for Peace Conference in Milan last month. Sponsored by the Veronesi Foundation, the conference brought together government leaders, Nobel Prize winners, academics, progressive social […]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently awarded the distinction of fellow to 702 scientists, including CEE’s Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies, and four other […]
Three MIT researchers were named Marine Microbiology Initiative investigators on Monday by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation — an honor that includes funding for pioneering research in the field of marine microbial ecology. Edward DeLong, […]
A video from the first Chiang C. Mei Lecture in Applied Mechanics can now be viewed online. Julian Hunt, Professor of Climate Modeling at the University College London, spoke on “Fluid Mechanics and Public Policy: Environmental […]
A Dec. 2 story on the Oceans at MIT website poses three questions to Professor Chiang Mei about the possibility of building storm surge barriers to protect the New York and New Jersey coastline from hurricanes […]
An article by doctoral student Zenzile Brooks, “A Gift of Glass,” appeared in the November issue of the Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin. Brooks, who plans to be a science writer after graduation, wrote the article […]
Professor Andrew Whittle gave an evening lecture at the Oskar von Miller Forum in Munich Nov. 20, speaking on the design and performance of coastal flood protection systems using New Orleans and Venice as examples. The […]
Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by CEE’s Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk’s unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks. Now Buehler — […]
In late September, Professor Jerome Connor’s latest book was published, this one written with co-author Susan Faraji of University of Massachusetts Lowell. Fundamentals of Structural Engineering (Springer, 2013) is the sixth book Connor has authored or […]
The prize council of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water recently announced that Professor Charles Harvey and his research team will receive the Groundwater Prize for determining the likely pathway by which arsenic […]
Jesse Kroll, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and chemical engineering, received the Kenneth T. Whitby Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research during the organization’s annual meeting Oct. 10, in Minneapolis. Nominators said […]
Oceanographers have long assumed that because turbulence distributes nutrients uniformly in ocean water, and because the ability of tiny organisms to move around is insignificant compared to this turbulence, there was no reason for ocean bacteria to move at all. Sea-dwelling […]
Researchers in MIT’s Concrete Sustainability Hub are making steady progress toward learning exactly how the cement paste that works as glue in concrete hardens during the first hours after water and cement powder are mixed. First […]
By Denise Brehm Civil and Environmental Engineering Concrete may be one of the most familiar building materials on Earth, but its underlying structure remains a bit of a mystery. Materials scientists and concrete engineers still don’t […]
New research by Professor Markus Buehler and doctoral student Zhao Qin on the fracture mechanism of ice shows that ice cracks more easily when exposed to carbon dioxide. Using a series of atomistic-level computer simulations to analyze the dynamics of molecules, they found that carbon dioxide forms […]
