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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 […]