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Penny Chisholm named a AAAS fellow for her pioneering studies of Prochlorococcus
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently awarded the distinction of fellow to 702 scientists, including CEE’s Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin...
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Susan Murcott presents keynote lecture on water scarcity at Science for Peace...
Senior lecturer Susan Murcott gave a keynote speech at the World Science for Peace Conference in Milan last month. Sponsored by the Veronesi Foundation, the conference brought together government...
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Professor Emeritus Charles Ladd will receive ASCE lifetime achievement award
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) announced that Charles C. Ladd III, the Edmund K. Turner Professor Emeritus of CEE, will receive a 2013 Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) lifetime...
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Oceans at MIT website features a story on Roman Stocker’s microfluidics...
The Oceans at MIT website ran an article by Genevieve Wanucha about the research of CEE Professor Roman Stocker‘s environmental microfluidics lab, which uses small devices to create mini-habitats for...
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Roman Stocker finds big effects from tiny organisms
MIT News writer David Chandler profiles Professor Roman Stocker and his research, describing Stocker’s early exposure to civil engineering via his father’s work to his own niche studying marine...
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Postdoc Gabriel Juarez awarded travel grant by MIT Postdoctoral Association
Postdoctoral associate Gabriel Juarez received a Conference Travel Grant from the MIT Postdoctoral Association‘s Professional Development Committee to attend the annual meeting of the American Physical...
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New book edited by Oral Buyukozturk on the nondestructive testing of...
The proceedings of the May 2011 conference on the Nondestructive Testing of Materials and Structures have been published as a book edited by CEE Professor Oral Buyukozturk and Mehmet Ali Tasdemir, Oguz...
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Research shows why slight increase in flexibility of manufacturing plants...
Professor David Simchi-Levi and doctoral student Yehua Wei applied a combination of optimization and stochastic methodologies to explain the effectiveness of “long chain” flexibility design in...
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Andrew Whittle to talk about coastal flood protection in online alumni event
In the MIT Alumni Association’s next Faculty Forum Online broadcast, Professor Andrew J. Whittle ScD ’87, head of CEE, will discuss the challenges of flood protection using examples from experiences in...
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Traffic congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by...
In most cities, traffic growth has outpaced road capacity, leading to increased congestion, particularly during the morning and evening commutes. One way to prevent traffic tie-ups is to have fewer...
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