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Looking beyond luxury: MIT researchers eye silk as a powerful tool in the fight against climate change and global food sustainability

December 2, 2020 | Research | CEE Chief Editor

According to the United Nations, the world has seen a rapid, seven-fold increase to the global population, leading to an important question in our quest to address human impact on climate change: how can we continue […]

Professor Colette Heald participates in Global Food+ symposium

February 17, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Associate Professor and Associate Department Head of CEE Colette Heald participated in the Global Food+ symposium on February 16. Heald spoke about the impact of particulate matter on crops, particularly maize, wheat and rice. The symposium […]

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir featured in Science Magazine

February 16, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former postdoc Ross Alter was featured in Science Magazine. The news article about the CEE study, entitled “The United States’s Corn Belt is making its own weather,” discusses how agriculture had a […]

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows intensive agriculture has impact on summer climate in Midwest United States

February 13, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former postdoc Ross Alter shows that intensive agriculture has an impact on summer climate in the Midwestern United States. Eltahir and Alter demonstrated that there was a significant empirical association […]

Students take the lead in 2018 TREX program

February 12, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Assistant Professor Ben Kocar led a group of students to Hawaii this Independent Activities Period (IAP) to conduct environmental research as part of CEE’s Traveling Research Environmental eXperiences (TREX) program. The students were tasked with executing […]

Agricultural Microbiology: Designing Microbial Communities

January 16, 2018 | IAP | ceemit

By Mikayla Murphy ’18 During IAP, Course 1 students often scatter across the globe, from TREX in Hawaii to mini-UROP in Cambridge. This IAP, six other MIT students and I are doing something new: spending two […]

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 Dave Des Marais joins Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

October 10, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Assistant Professor Dave Des Marais was profiled on MIT News for his research into plant physiology and how plants naturally respond to environmental stresses. Des Marais officially joined the department on October 1, and works in […]

CEE professors present their research to industry practitioners during “Innovation and Technology in Agriculture and the Environment”

July 24, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]CEE Professors Lydia Bourouiba, Markus Buehler, Daniel Cziczo, Benjamin Kocar, Chandra Madramootoo, Benedetto Marelli and Dennis McLaughlin each presented on their research and fielded questions from industry practitioners as part of an MIT Professional Education short […]

Agriculture, Innovation, and the Environment Short Course

June 8, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

From June 13 to 17, 2016, the CEE department and the MIT Professional Education program will be offering a new short course, Agriculture, Innovation, and the Environment. The instructors include Professors Robert S. Langer, Martin Polz, […]