An essay by M.S.T student Dianne Kamfonik was one of 13 selected for publication in the Jan. 6 issue of Science in the NextGenVoices section. Science solicited essays that addressed the question “How will the practice […]
An essay by M.S.T student Dianne Kamfonik was one of 13 selected for publication in the Jan. 6 issue of Science in the NextGenVoices section. Science solicited essays that addressed the question “How will the practice […]
CEE researchers Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and postdoctoral associate Qinglu Zeng have discovered that certain photosynthetic ocean bacteria need to beware of viruses bearing gifts. These viruses are really con artists carrying genetic material taken from […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering MIT researchers have discovered that certain photosynthetic ocean bacteria need to beware of viruses bearing gifts: These viruses are really con artists carrying genetic material taken from their previous […]
Graduate student Kevin Muhs will attend The Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting (known as TRB) in Washington, D.C., along with many other CEE graduate students, faculty and lecturers and about 10,000 other people from around the […]
Fourteen undergrads, seven advisors, two weeks, one active volcano. Follow the story of TREX 2012 by reading the undergrads’ blog about their time on the big island of Hawaii studying the Kilauea volcano and cloud-fed bogs. […]
M.Eng. student Adam Questad and his teammates Connie Lu, Matthew Miller and Weini Qiu on Ghana-4S are spending IAP in Tamale, Ghana, working on small-scale drinking water and sanitation systems with the nonprofit company Pure Home […]
The LIS Solutions team of four M.Eng students is spending January working with the Singapore Public Utility Board (PUB) to measure and find ways of controlling bacterial pollution in surface waters of a reservoir that the […]
NPR’s “Morning Edition” interviewed Professor Pedro Reis in late December, asking him about the work of a French physicist who used the size and shape of tree branches to explain Leonardo’s rule. NPR also posted Reis’s […]
Senior Scott Landers (1E) has been awarded scholarships from the Rhode Island Consulting Engineers (RICE) and the New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA). RICE is a nonprofit professional organization representing independent consulting engineering firms. RICE awards […]
An image by graduate student Birendra Jha was selected to appear on “Back Scatter,” the back cover of Physics Today, in the January 2012 issue. The image, which also appeared last fall in Wired-UK and Discover […]
While people often say that the Internet has flattened the world allowing social networks to spring up overnight, independent of geography or socioeconomic status, new research suggests otherwise. Professor Marta González and graduate student Jameson Toole studied the “contagion process” of the microblogging […]
Since most of the world’s governments have not yet enacted regulations to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, some experts have advocated the development of technologies to remove carbon dioxide directly from the air. But a new […]
As the world’s population continues to expand, our natural resources will become increasingly strained. In an effort to find sustainable solutions for the planet’s growing population while minimizing environmental impacts, MIT’s Environmental Research Council (ERC) — […]
Samar Malek, a Ph.D. candidate in CEE, was named the 2012 Marshall Sherfield Fellow. The fellowship is awarded to one American scientist or engineer annually by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, allowing the recipient to undertake […]
An image from a Dec. 8, 2011 Nature paper authored by graduate students Chris Smillie, Mark Smith and Jonathan Friedman, postdoctoral associate Otto Cordero, alumnus Lawrence David Ph.D. ’11 and Professor Eric Alm appears in a […]