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CEE researchers explain mystery of gravity fingers

December 11, 2008 | Research | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: why water doesn’t soak into soil at an even rate, but instead […]

Entekhabi to lead MIT Environmental Research Council

October 13, 2008 | News | ceemit

Dara Entekhabi, the Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, director of the Parsons Lab and director of the Earth Systems Initiative (ESI), will serve as chair of the […]

Software will improve hurricane planning and evacuation

October 13, 2008 | Research | ceemit

Many lives and dollars could be saved if emergency managers could make better decisions when faced with an approaching hurricane. Now, MIT student Michael Metzger, who works with Professor Richard Larson of CEE and the Engineering […]

NPR’s Science Friday attends birthday bash for Prochloroccus

June 18, 2008 | News | ceemit

NPR’s Joe Palca attended Prochlorococcus Fest, a two-day celebration at MIT honoring the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the marine microbe. The fest featured a range of talks highlighting research on the smallest and most […]

Rafael Bras named dean of UC Irvine School of Engineering

April 27, 2008 | News | ceemit

Contact: Denise Brehm MIT Civil & Environmental Engineering brehm@mit.edu Professor Rafael L. Bras, who joined the MIT faculty shortly after earning his doctorate here in 1975, and who has served as a lab director, department head, […]

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

March 4, 2008 | Research | ceemit

Microbes living in the oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth’s environment, but very little is known about their activities and how they work together to help control natural cycles of water, carbon and energy. […]

CEE alum credited with Nobel Peace Prize work will speak at MIT

October 29, 2007 | News | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE alumnus Adil Najam, a lead author on two of the reports that garnered the Nobel Peace Prize for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will speak on […]

Ben-Akiva honored for lifetime achievement in transportation research

July 13, 2007 | Awards | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva, the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems program, received the Dupuit Prize from the World […]