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Professor Ali Jadbabaie wins Multiuniversity Research Initiative (MURI) award from US Department of Defense

April 16, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

JR East Professor Ali Jadbabaie won the Multiuniversity Research Initiative (MURI) award from the US Department of Defense for a 5-year basic research program. The award aims to support research efforts that contain more than one […]

CEE hosts annual research speed dating event

March 15, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

On February 15, 2019, CEE hosted their annual research speed dating event that brought together faculty, postdocs, undergraduates, graduates and research scientists to present their research findings and objectives. The presentations were followed by a panel […]

TREX 2019: The Mission to Ascend Mauna Kea

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Peter Duff ’20 On our sixth day on the island, we had a singular mission; ascend Mauna Kea, and do so in one piece. Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano, stretching ear-popping 13800 feet into […]

TREX – Day 5: Mauna Kea!

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 REX Day 5: Mauna Kea! Today, we drove up Mauna Kea, the second-highest mountain on the island. At the top, there was none of the heat nor humidity we have come to […]

TREX – Day 4

January 17, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was an exciting disappointment. We were originally supposed to head over to Leilani to see newly formed lava fields, but never got a call back on whether today was okay for […]

Professor Franz-Josef Ulm and researcher Jeremy Gregory build architectural software tool

September 7, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Concrete Sustainability Hub researchers Professor Franz-Josef Ulm, Principal Research Scientist Randolph Kirchain, Research Scientist Jeremy Gregory and CEE alumnus Joshua Hester ’11 MNG ’12 PhD ‘18, have developed software to be utilized when designing new buildings. […]

Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao developed flexible, magnetic, 3-D structures

June 15, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet and can crawl, roll, jump, and snap together. A potential application of the technology is to use […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao creates “living tattoo” that responds to the environment

December 5, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor of CEE and Mechanical Engineering Xuanhe Zhao, in collaboration with Professor of EECS and Biological Engineering Timothy Lu, created a “living tattoo” made of genetically programmed living cells that can respond to environmental chemicals and […]

Research from Professor Charles Harvey shows arsenic in groundwater damages rice yield in Bangladesh

October 20, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]New research from Professor Charles Harvey and graduate student Brittany Huhmann shows that the presence of arsenic in groundwater, deposited through irrigation, damages the rice yield in Bangladesh. The field study was conducted during the 2015 […]

Professor Oral Buyukozturk receives major research grant from Shell

September 19, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Professor Oral Buyukozturk recently received a $1.3 million research grant from Shell to develop innovative technologies to detect and characterize oil operation induced earthquakes in areas near urban populations and to study the effects in neighborhood […]

MIT-Imperial Exchange: Exploring the city through field research

July 28, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Milani Chatterji-Len As a rising third-year on the systems track, I am thrilled to be working in London on hydraulic modeling. My project is geared toward improving flood prediction in less developed countries in the […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao designs smooth gel coating for medical materials

July 18, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao recently designed a new soft and slippery yet tough coating that can be applied to plastic and rubber materials such as surgical tubing. The coating makes medical […]

MIT-Imperial Exchange: Living and working in London

July 18, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Milani Chatterji-Len This summer I am working in a research lab at Imperial College of London through the MIT-Imperial Exchange. The program, which strengthens the relationship between Imperial and MIT, sends students from across many […]

Summer In Santiago

July 7, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

By Christine Langston I’m spending the summer (or rather winter in the southern hemisphere) in Santiago, the capital city of Chile through a MIT program called MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives). I’m interning with […]

Addressing rising sea levels in Venice: the MOSE project

June 21, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By René Andrés García Franceschini Night fell two days prior to our departure as my teammates and I made the trek to our makeshift classroom, on the opposite side of the construction site. The mammoth MOSE […]