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Translating Thought to Print with Bio-Inspired Synthetic Spider Webs

May 18, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Over the years MIT research has explored the mysteries of spider silk, all in the effort to design synthetic resources that mimic its extraordinary properties. Until recently, understanding of the properties has been largely limited to […]

Clean Earth Hackathon Solves Sustainability Challenges

April 24, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

From Friday, April 17 to Sunday, April 19, more than 70 members of the MIT and non-MIT communities converged to devise solutions for real-world environmental challenges in the inaugural MIT Clean Earth Hackathon. Sponsored by CEE […]

Two 2015 CEE Inductees in the Quarter Century Club

April 10, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On Wednesday April 15, 2015, two new members from the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will be inducted into the MIT Quarter Century Club (QCC) with a celebratory luncheon. The 2015 CEE inductees include Professor […]

Soil Moisture Satellite Reveals First “SMAPshot”

March 13, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On March 4, 2015, NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite successfully completed the initial test of its science instruments and revealed its very first image of the Earth’s soil moisture. These “first-light” images were composed […]