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MIT graduate students are working on a thermoelectric system that could make MIT's cogeneration plant even more efficient.

MIT students seek to harness waste heat

Device could make MIT's cogeneration plant even more efficient

July 24, 2008

MIT graduate student Tijs Van Maasakkers, right, examines one of the water lines near Durban, South Africa.

MIT students help cities plan for changing climate

South Africa trip prompts work on online tool with global application

July 22, 2008

MIT expert: Don't count on long-term success in climate policy

Says policy-making requires ambitious short-term goals

July 11, 2008

Flexible design in airports essential for courting low-cost airlines

June 18, 2008

Matt Ritter, Doug Wood, Spencer Ahrens and Micah Sze mount one of the 10-inch by 12-foot mirror panels in place.

MIT prototype solar dish passes first tests

Low-cost system could revolutionize global energy production

June 18, 2008

Diagram shows the structure of a histidine kinase (blue ribbons) and its target response regulator (green ribbons). The specificity of the interaction between the two proteins is primarily determined by the orange and red amino acid residues.

MIT researchers unravel bacteria communication pathways

June 12, 2008

Forum examines cities and climate change

June 10, 2008

MIT analysts say European system for cutting CO2 emissions is working well

Lessons to be learned for U.S., globe

June 10, 2008

MIT researchers are designing sensors that use carbon nanotubes, shown here in middle and at top, to detect hazardous gases.

Super-sensitive and small: New MIT detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases

June 5, 2008

Tao Laoban works at cleaning one of the concrete solar cookers used in Tibet. A team of students, including some from MIT, has developed a more portable solar cooker.

Harnessing the Tibetan sun

Student project aims to reduce deforestation and lung disease

June 4, 2008

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering head Professor Patrick Jaillet congratulates Jose Alberto Ortega on winning the Maseeh Award for excellence as a teaching assistant. The graduate student from Cuenca, Ecuador, was nominated by the faculty and students he assisted in 1.050 Engineering Mechanics I.

Civil & Environmental Engineering awards

June 4, 2008

Graduate student winners (left to right): Jared Toettcher (3rd place), Clement Tsz Yan Chan (2nd place), Erika Noonan (2nd place), and Aarthi Chandrasekaran (1st place).

CEHS awards 2008 research prizes

May 30, 2008

The mesh of nanowires behind MIT's new material for absorbing oil and other organic pollutants, here shown at increasing magnifications (left to right).

MIT develops a 'paper towel' for oil spills

Nanowire mesh can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil

May 30, 2008

Center funds environmental health projects for 2008

May 27, 2008

Bras wins faculty's Killian Award