Silk-based filtration material breaks barriers
Engineers find nanosized building blocks of silk hold the secrets to improved filtration membranes.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mapping coal’s decline and renewables' rise
CoalMap online tool shows what policy regulations and technological advancements can do for the cost-competitiveness of solar and wind energy.
Supercharging undergraduate research
Now open to the entire School of Engineering, SuperUROP is creating an interdisciplinary community of scholars.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offering new minors, subjects this fall
CEE creates three new undergraduate minors, adds new subjects to extend choice and opportunity.
Eight from MIT awarded 2016 Fulbright grants
Grantees will spend the 2016-2017 academic year conducting research abroad.
Air quality sensors track pollution
Research from MIT's Tata Center for Technology and Design is helping to quantify emissions in the world’s most polluted cities.
Making cities smarter
MIT researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that urban planners can vastly improve the quality of urban life.
Alumnus returns to MIT with a perfect reunion record
At Tech Reunions June 2-5, Robert Smith '41, will celebrate 75 years since his graduation — as well as his perfect reunion attendance.
MIT at the Venice Biennale
On a global stage, MIT helps steer architecture toward solving worldwide challenges.
Finding a new formula for concrete
Researchers look to bones and shells as blueprints for stronger, more durable concrete.
J-WAFS awards $1.3 million in second round of seed grant funding
Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $100,000 per year for up to two years for innovative research on food and water challenges.
