As part of their campaign to educate the public on the importance of photosynthesis to all life on the planet, Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and co-author/illustrator Molly Bang have written a second children’s book, this time […]
As part of their campaign to educate the public on the importance of photosynthesis to all life on the planet, Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and co-author/illustrator Molly Bang have written a second children’s book, this time […]
By Amy Cavaretta and Pamela Shepherd Eno Center for Transportation This summer, the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan think-tank in Washington, D.C., honored Frederick Salvucci ’61, S.M. ’62, senior lecturer and senior research associate in […]
MIT is the top-rated civil engineering school in the world according to the QS World released in July. QS also named MIT No. 4 in environmental sciences. The rankings, published by QS — Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. […]
Public health crises of the past decade have heightened awareness that new viruses or bacteria could spread quickly across the globe, aided by air travel. While epidemiologists and scientists who study complex network systems are working […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Public health crises of the past decade — such as the 2003 SARS outbreak, which spread to 37 countries and caused about 1,000 deaths, and the 2009 H1N1 flu […]
Congratulations to the MIT Steel Bridge Team, which took 2nd place at the national competition held May 25-26 at Clemson University! The University of California at Berkeley placed 1st and California Polytechnic State University at San […]
On Friday, June 8 CEE graduates gathered with families, friends and faculty, staff and alumni for an afternoon party following MIT’s 146th Commencement exercises. During the 2011-12 academic year, the department awarded 115 degrees: 18 doctorates; […]
Following the MIT Hooding Ceremony the morning of June 7, CEE celebrated its 18 doctoral graduates with a luncheon for grads and their friends and families. Department head Professor Andrew Whittle gave a toast honoring the […]
Professor Markus Buehler and doctoral student Steven Cranford are co-authors of a new book, “Biomateriomics,” which is part of the Springer Series in Materials Science. The book, which endorses interdisciplinary methods of research, introduces a holistic […]
Tiffany Cheng ’12 was named an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Selected Professions Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year. This national scholarship provides funding for women entering professional fields like law, medicine and engineering. Cheng […]
CEE’s Matt Orosz Ph.D. ’12 was named a 2012 Echoing Green Fellow on June 7, the same day he received his doctoral hood. Echoing Green, a nonprofit organization that provides seed funding for projects that offer […]
Transportation graduate student Naomi Stein was selected to attend the prestigious Eno Leadership Development Conference in Washington, D.C., June 3 to 7. The conference, which focuses on transportation policy and programs, is run by the Eno […]
Graduate student Margaret Wildnauer has been awarded a Structural Engineering Travel Fellowship from the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Foundation based on her essay and research itinerary for travel. Her research plan is to look at different […]
Two teams from senior lecturer Susan Murcott’s D-Lab Technology Dissemination class won $7,500 prizes in the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Competition: OpenIR (see separate news brief) and wecyclers. Wecyclers intends to set up kiosks in the […]
OpenIR, a web application designed to make data accessible after disasters, won a $7,500 prize in this year’s MIT Global Challenge Competition on May 3. The team included CEE and urban studies and planning double major […]