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Flexible airport design essential for low-cost airlines

The leading low-cost airlines with a preference for small, inexpensive airports are now the largest airlines in the United States and Europe, according to an MIT expert on airport design and operations. June 18, 2008

Civil & Environmental Engineering awards

Awards given in MIT Civil & Environmental Engineering for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008

Lerman to become MIT's vice chancellor

Dean for Graduate Education Steven R. Lerman '72, S.M. '73, Ph.D. '75 will become MIT's vice chancellor, effective July 1, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay announced this week. May 28, 2008

Bras wins faculty's Killian Award

Rafael Bras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who pioneered the field of hydrologic science, is MIT's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2008-2009. May 27, 2008

Scientists fathom niches of ocean microbes

Marine bacteria in the wild organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources, rather than competing for them, according to MIT research that could change the way scientists approach the classification of microbes. May 22, 2008

Happy anniversary, Prochlorococcus

An ocean-dwelling microbe of global importance discovered only 20 years ago by researchers, including one at MIT, is the focus of the May 30-31 ProchlorococcusFest, featuring the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism in the sea. May 21, 2008

Art + technology = clean water in Ecuador

MIT student Kendra Johnson found that to improve water quality in a rural Ecuadorian village, she needed to consider economic issues in addition to technology, and so ended up devising an innovative way of using local arts to pay for the project. May 14, 2008

Steel away

An MIT team from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering prepares for the American Society of Civil Engineers National Steel Bridge Competition. May 6, 2008

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