Civil and environmental engineering

Cynthia Barnhart is appointed acting dean of the School of EngineeringSubra Suresh, nominated to head NSF, is on sabbatical leave for the fall semester.

MIT alumnus gives $24M to expand the Institute’s undergraduate student bodyFariborz Maseeh cites pressing need for MIT graduates.

The Salp: Nature’s near-perfect little engine just got betterThese efficient organisms may help remove carbon dioxide from the upper ocean

15 MIT students awarded DOE-funded Science Graduate FellowshipsAmong 150 students nationwide awarded fellowships in program's first year

New housemasters for East Campus, The Warehouse

MIT Steel Bridge Team breaks into the top 10 at national competitionThe undergrads won against much larger and more experienced teams

Building a brighter future in Siem Reap, CambodiaStudents in Civil Engineering and Architecture design new classroom structures for the Jay Pritzker Academy in Siem Reap.

Chisholm receives Agassiz Medal from National Academy of SciencesMIT professor selected for her pioneering studies of marine organisms

Hamlin Jennings will lead new Concrete Sustainability Hub at MITProfessor from Northwestern University will join MIT team working to reduce concrete's carbon footprint

In the World: Clean Water for GhanaMIT students help a researcher build a factory that could provide water filters for 1 million people in northern Ghana

$3.5 million grant for bus rapid transit awarded to MIT, IST-Lisbon and global partnersCenter of Excellence on Bus Rapid Transit is eighth such center funded by the Volvo Research and Education Foundation

Mastering multicoreMIT researchers find a way to make complex computer simulations run more efficiently on chips with multiple processors.

Using plants to purify canal waterResearchers outline a natural way to clean Italy's polluted Pontine Marshes

CEE’s Janelle Thompson chosen for Doherty Professorship

Unraveling silks’ secretsA new analysis of the structure of silks explains the paradox at the heart of their super-strength, and may lead to even stronger synthetic materials.

3 Questions: Eduardo Kausel on Chile’s massive earthquakeHow stringent building codes limited damage in Chile, and why there’s cause for concern in parts of the U.S.

MIT's chapter of Engineers Without Borders launches first projectStudents hope to bring electricity and clean water to Ugandan health clinic

Researcher's and artist's dynamic seascape art selected for cover of 'Science' magazine

Portuguese student at MIT develops risk-assessment methodology to help prevent tunnel accidents

Three professors win top national early-career honorsPresidential awards to Buehler, Dawson and Sheffield were presented this week at a White House ceremony

Solving history’s ‘largest mass poisoning’Research points to carbon in man-made ponds as catalyst for arsenic contamination in Bangladeshi wells

Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded

Robustness comes from messiness, not a clean geometric arrangement

Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringA geotechnical engineer who served on the
panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans
following Hurricane Katrina is the new head
of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease

Taking the heat offBiomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material