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Civil and Environmental Engineering
Improving educational opportunities for refugee youth around the world
Three proposals in MIT Solve's “Learn” pillar advance to finals.
With new model, buildings may “sense” internal damage
System predicts how MIT’s tallest structure responds to vibrations, may help monitor stress over time.
3Q: Fotini Christia and Ali Jadbabaie on researching the dynamics of sociopolitcal change
MIT faculty discuss how a multidisciplinary, multi-university collaboration helps us understand the mechanics of social and political change.
From engineer to urban planner
Grad student Billy Ndengeyingoma helps improve affordable-housing design in Africa.
How to power up graphene implants without frying cells
New analysis finds way to safely conduct heat from graphene to biological tissues.
MIT researchers prove fast microbial evolutionary bursts exist
Study reveals closely related microbes can diversify rapidly via horizontal gene transfer.
An autonomous fleet for Amsterdam
MIT, AMS Institute will collaborate to solve complex urban problems for Amsterdam with the development of autonomous "roboats."
MIT and French research institutions collaborate on climate-conscious materials
MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Environment research partnership could reduce the carbon footprint of materials such as concrete.
QS ranks MIT the world’s top university for 2016-17
Ranked No. 1 for the fifth straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 42 disciplines.
Inferring urban travel patterns from cellphone data
Big-data analysis could give city planners timelier, more accurate alternatives to commuter surveys.
Lifelong learning a hallmark of MIT pursuits
Professor Philip Gschwend discusses the importance of comprehensive systems approaches to curing environmental ills.
Study reveals new physics of how fluids flow in porous media
Key flow mechanisms, crucial to carbon sequestration and fuel-cell operation, have been visualized.
Can today’s EVs make a dent in climate change?
Electric vehicles can meet drivers’ needs enough to replace nearly 90 percent of vehicles now on the road.