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Interning in the midst of COVID-19: CEE undergrad shares her experience

August 21, 2020 | Undergraduate Spotlight | Zach Goodale

Rovi Porter is a Junior in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. With all the craziness of Covid-19, being sent home, and constantly trying to soak in all the new information, my summer internship […]

Engineering for good

July 9, 2020 | CEE Profiles | CEE Chief Editor

Md Sami Hasnine, is in the business of understanding people. From his research developing and building predictive models of human behavior, to his work in MIT’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion community, the CEE postdoc has displayed […]

Institute Professor Penny Chisholm profiled by Science Magazine

March 9, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

Institute Professor Penny Chisholm was recently profiled by Science Magazine for her long and esteemed career researching Prochlorococcus and for her significant contribution towards women’s equality in higher education. Read the full profile here. […]

Senior Julia Heyman wins 2017 Carroll L. Wilson Award, will conduct research in Indonesia

March 7, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

Senior Julia Heyman was recently awarded the 2017 Caroll L. Wilson Award, a prize that funds a year of research. She will travel to Indonesia after graduation and will be pursuing a project on the implementation […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao creates hydrogel robots

February 1, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Associate Professor of CEE and Mechanical Engineering Xuanhe Zhao and Mechanical Engineering graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk have created gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The robots are almost invisible […]

Professor Jesse Kroll profiled on MIT News

February 1, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Jesse Kroll, Associate Professor of CEE and Chemistry, was profiled on MIT News for his work on the role of organic compounds in the air. Learn about how Kroll came to MIT and how his research […]

Professor Penny Chisholm couples research with writing environmental children’s books

January 31, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Institute Professor Penny Chisholm is featured on MIT News for her environmental children’s book series. Chisholm partnered with award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Molly Bang to create the “Sunlight Series,” a collection of four books […]

TREX 2017: Sharing the Results and Saying Aloha to Hawaii

January 29, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Preparing to Communicate with the Public | January 24, 2017 | Daniel Richman For scientists, conducting research is only half the job. We also need to communicate our findings to our sponsors and to the public. […]

Professor Heidi Nepf to collaborate with Conservation International

January 27, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Donald and Martha Harleman Professor Heidi Nepf will work with scientists from Conservation International (CI), a nonprofit environmental organization, to further develop a model describing the effectiveness of mangrove forest in damping waves and storm surge. […]

Professor Caitlin Mueller featured on MIT News for her research on energy-efficient design

January 23, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Assistant Professor Caitlin Mueller is featured on MIT News for her role in creating a computer simulation that can help architects optimize designs and energy consumption. The simulation allows architects to explore how architectural form impacts […]

TREX 2017: Monitoring sulfur dioxide at a local Hawaii school

January 22, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Installing SO2 sensors | January 22, 2017 | Daniel Richman Our sulfur dioxide monitoring project is moving forward! On Thursday, we mounted a sensor to our drone and flew it up above the Ka’u Coffee Mill […]

TREX 2017: When in Hawaii, check out the lava

January 20, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Field Trip: Lava is worth it | January 19, 2017 | Alexa Jaeger When Ben Kocar mentioned that we could potentially hike to see a current active lava flow pouring into the ocean, I was beyond […]

TREX 2017: Collecting soil samples on a sweet potato farm

January 18, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Sweet Potatoes and Sweet People | January 18, 2017 | Lily Dove Not much has changed between my six-year-old self and my 20-year-old self. I’m still stubborn, my favorite color is still pink, and I still […]

TREX 2017: The fieldwork learning curve

January 17, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Learning from the successes and failures of fieldwork | Tuesday January 17, 2017 | Lily Dove When most people think of science, they think of sterile labs, faceless people in white lab coats and gloves, and […]

Markus Buehler named Editor in Chief of prestigious scientific publication

January 26, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

Effective January 2016, Department Head and McAfee Professor of Engineering Markus Buehler was named Editor in Chief of the scholarly publication, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. With a primary focus on the synthesis of materials science, biology, and medical and dental science, […]