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Civil and environmental engineering awards

June 1, 2005

Freshman Lissa Riley, who traveled to the Galapagos Islands as part of MIT's Terrascope program, works on a knot displayed in the lobby of Building 13 as a metaphor for the complexity of pleasing all of the stakeholders in the Galapagos, from residents to tourists and from the government to the ecosystem.

Freshmen exhibit Galapagos lessons

May 17, 2005

MIT, Kuwait foundation announce partnership to advance management of water, energy resources

May 12, 2005

Quantum dots from the Bawendi Group at MIT

Professors discuss value of uncommon connections

May 5, 2005

Entertainers from Acorn Event Productions perform for those who visited the Stata Center lobby on April 28 in one of many events held on campus in celebration of MIT's Earth Day.

Campus events celebrate the earth

May 4, 2005

Professor James Gustave Speth, dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, addresses the crowd during the inaugural MIT Environmental Fellows Invitational Lecture on April 6.

Scientists urged to spread word on global warming

April 11, 2005

MIT Professor John Heywood, director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory, far right, makes a point at the Alliance for Global Sustainability gathering on March 21 while panel members Leena Srivastava, executive director of The Energy and Resources Institute, India, and Professor David Marks, director of MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, look on.

Leaders meet at MIT to tackle world energy woes

April 4, 2005

MIT graduate students in urban planning visit the U.S. Geological Survey. From left: students Anna Brown and Lindsay Campbell; USGS director Charles Groat; students Jennifer Peyser, , Basilia Yao and Peter Brandenburg; and Herman Karl, co-director of the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative.

D.C. trip focuses on resolving environmental disputes

March 30, 2005

Chart displays responses to the following question: 'Have you heard of or read about any of the following in the past year? Check all that apply.'

Climate change poorly understood, MIT survey finds

March 16, 2005

City of Cambridge truck that will be outfitted with diesel-emission controls through an EPA-funded collaboration between MIT and Cambridge.

Cambridge, MIT win EPA grant to cut diesel emissions

February 23, 2005

Recycling plan pushed by staff

February 9, 2005

A schematic cross section of the wall of an engine cylinder and the piston.

Subtle changes will make a workhorse engine cleaner, more efficient

January 31, 2005

Elfatih A.B. Eltahir

Tropical seesaw: A flooded Amazon means drought in the Congo

January 31, 2005

Map shows the spatial variability in China of one key input to farming: water. Water is generally abundant in the south and scarce in the north and west.

Food production in China could be increased with more irrigation

January 20, 2005

Ranier Lohmann, a former postdoctoral associate at MIT's Parsons Lab, takes samples in Boston Harbor to assess levels of toxic organic compounds.

Plastic packaging helps monitor ocean pollutants

January 12, 2005