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An article and photo gallery about Pure Home Water (PHW) and its success at improving drinking water quality for rural Ghanaians appeared on the America.gov website in March. PHW is a nonprofit company based in Tamale, […]

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MIT is holding an open house Saturday, April 30 in celebration of the Institute’s 150th anniversary. CEE faculty and students have planned nine exhibits for the open house, which will be held from 11 a.m. to […]

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Senior Joshua Hester will give his senior piano recital Saturday, May 14 at 2 p.m. in Killian Hall. Hester will play works of Brahms, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Chopin and Joel. He invites all CEE faculty, staff, […]

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During Campus Preview Weekend, Professor Franz Ulm participated in a Professor Talent Show hosted by SaveTFP, a student group that facilitates all-inclusive student social activities. Ulm’s talk focused on the mechanics of scraping the top of […]

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Green concrete, one of the goals of the Concrete Sustainability Hub, was the topic of a video news report by the BBC TV’s Ian Hardy, who visited CEE April 1, interviewing Professors Franz Ulm and Hamlin […]

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Three graduate students in Professor Ruben Juanes‘ research group received Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting held in San Francisco in December. The winners are Birendra Jha for “Fluid Mixing From Viscous […]

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Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is dedicated to improving the world through engineering solutions. The MIT Chapter of EWB, which counts many CEE students among its membership, works in Uganda on energy and water problems. On Saturday, […]

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Professor Roman Stocker wrote an invited news commentary that accompanied an article in the Feb. 2 Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about a newly discovered mechanism of locomotion used by […]

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Professor Markus Buehler has been invited to present six lectures for a course at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in Udine, Italy, July 18-22. The other six lecturers in “Advanced and Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics” include […]

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At least eight teams in the MIT Global Challenge have CEE students or alumni as members. Course 1 senior Tiffany Cheng and Course 7 grad student Alison Takemura of the Martin Polz lab are working on […]

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Course 1 senior Kallie Hedberg and junior Julia Hopkins are co-authors of a paper that appeared in a March issue of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine. “Vaccine Availability in the United States during the 2009 […]

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Senior Research Associate (retired) Carl Martland, has a new book out titled, “Toward More Sustainable Infrastructure: Project Evaluation for Planners and Engineers” (Wiley 2011). Based on a subject he developed and taught at MIT (1.011 Project […]

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Efforts to prevent or reverse eutrophication in freshwater typically aim to decrease the amount of phosphate entering the lake or river in runoff from the watershed. But a new study by Professor Harry Hemond and Katherine […]

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Two CEE faculty members will chair sessions in the MIT 150th Symposium on “Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT,” scheduled for March 28- 29 in Kresge Auditorium. Professor Cynthia Barnhart will chair the […]

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