Assistant Professor Marta Gonzalez has been promoted to associate professor without tenure, effective July 1st, 2015. Gonzalez works in urban computing with a specialized interest in the intersections of people with the built environment and their […]
Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering “TREX” course allows students to examine firsthand the effects of volcanic emissions on air and soil quality As the residents of the Big Island of Hawaii […]
You are cordially invited to the 5th Annual CEE Research Speed Dating Day on Friday, February 20th from 1 pm to 7 pm in the MIT Media Lab (E14, 6th Floor). Join us for an afternoon […]
Many natural and engineered systems that wrinkle, including drying fruit, fingerprints and microlenses, typically have complex curved geometries. Whereas the mechanics of wrinkling of flat systems is well understood, rationalizing the pattern formation of wrinkles on […]
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, […]
In January, Professor Colette Heald presented a 5-minute slideshow on the environmental impacts on global food security at the 2015 World Economic Forum [WEF] in Davos, Switzerland to an audience of world leaders in business, policy […]
Sometimes the response to the outbreak of a disease can make things worse — such as when people panic and flee, potentially spreading the disease to new areas. The ability to anticipate when such overreactions might […]
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 […]
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 […]
