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Global Teaching Labs: Teaching and Traveling

January 20, 2019 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Meghan Reisenauer ’19 My classes so far have been great. I can’t believe I am already two-thirds of the way done with my time at the school! I am teaching students from Year 2 (about […]

Professor Admir Masic’s lab featured in The Tech

February 22, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

The Laboratory for Multiscale Characterization and Materials Design, led by Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, was featured in The Tech. Graduate student Linda Seymour was interviewed for the profile and spoke […]

ONE-MA3 gives students hands-on fieldwork experience in the context of cultural heritage

July 31, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, and teaching assistants Linda Seymour and Chad Loh, led a group of ten students around Italy for the second annual summer fieldwork program on Materials in […]

MISTI video highlights students’ research on Venice’s rising sea levels

July 31, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering Andrew Whittle and Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Paola Rizzoli led a research camp for MIT students, including CEE graduate student Paige Midstokke, rising senior Clio Macrakis […]

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 […]

Bone-inspired Materials by Design

June 8, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

MIT engineers in collaboration with colleagues from Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy are achieving functional diversity in materials by combining a few pure components as building blocks to create diverse structures. The researchers selected bone to […]

Summer research to examine Italian art, archeology and architecture (ONE-MA3) as prereq for fall subject

April 8, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Admir Masic will conduct two weeks of fieldwork in Italy this summer with undergraduates who sign up to join him as a prerequisite for a new fall special subject, Heritage Science and Technology (1.S993). The […]

The resilience of Admir Masic

October 20, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

Marilyn Siderwicz Civil and Environmental Engineering A former Bosnian refugee — and new CEE faculty member — finds parallels in his life, his research, and a current political crisis. In his first week at MIT, Assistant […]

Marta Gonzalez Presents Papers on Urban Social Networks

October 14, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Marta Gonzalez recently spoke in Lucca, Italy in conjunction with ECCS ’14 (the European Conference on Complex Systems), a major international gathering devoted to complex systems and interdisciplinary science. She presented two papers on the […]