South Asia is facing record-breaking heatwaves that could put millions at risk of life-threatening conditions. In a TIME op-ed, Prof. Elfatih Eltahir calls for urgent adaptation and aggressive action to curb carbon emissions. time.com/7319322/sout...

Prof. Josephine Carstensen and PhD student Hajin Kim-Tackowiak created a new design method that accounts for 3D printer limitations to better control materials’ performance in aerospace, medical, and other applications. news.mit.edu/2025/techniq...

Ready to engineer solutions for a sustainable future? Join us Sept. 25 @ 2PM ET for a Graduate Admissions Info session to learn how you can make a global impact through advanced study and research. Ready to apply now? Our grad application portal is open. apply.mit.edu/register/?id...

Congrats to @gioele-zardini.bsky.social on receiving a 2025 DARPA Young Faculty Award to support his research into scalable, verifiable design of multi-agent autonomous systems. #AutonomousSystems #ScalableDesign #MIT #EngineeringResearch lids.mit.edu/news-and-eve...

Prof. César Terrer and Trevor Cambron SM ’25 examine plants under elevated CO2 and their impact on climate models in a new review paper published in @natclimate.nature.com cee.mit.edu/plant-nutrie...

A new study led by Prof. Cathy Wu and colleagues reveals that eco-driving measures, such as dynamically adjusting vehicle speeds to reduce stopping and excessive acceleration, can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent. news.mit.edu/2025/eco-dri...

New research from Prof. Lydia Bourouiba and mentee and postdoc Naijian Shen uncovers a blind spot in how we model epidemic spread: combining data from different regions can skew estimates of contagion. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A new study led by CEE research scientist Evan Fricke highlights the critical role seed dispersing animals play in forest carbon absorption, showing that when these animals decline, forests recover significantly less carbon—a key factor in climate change mitigation. news.mit.edu/2025/why-ani...

Congrats to Giorgio Rizzo, postdoc in the Marelli Lab, on receiving a Kavanaugh Fellowship. This award will support his work focused on a seed coating that boosts plant growth and reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers. 📸: Jason Sparapani dmse.mit.edu/news/three-w...

Prof. John Ochsendorf is reimagining how we build and preserve America’s bridges—by looking to the past. “How do we build bridges that are cost effective, have lower environmental impact, and are also beautiful to look at?" he asks. www.wcvb.com/article/exte...

Prof. Elfatih Eltahir joins The Joy of Why podcast to explain why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population growth, to better predict and address climate-related challenges. www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-regi...

Prof. Saurabh Amin has received a 2025 MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund to develop DecarbAI—an AI-powered tool using LLMs and ML to help plan clean energy grids as data center electricity demand surges. energy.mit.edu/news/mit-ene...

Congrats to postdoc Maya Anjur-Dietrich on receiving a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund. This honor supports early-career researchers at the intersection of biology and the physical, computational & mathematical sciences. www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann...

A study from the Marelli Lab shows how a common fertilizer ingredient could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling growth. news.mit.edu/2025/study-s...

Nth Cycle, co-founded by Prof. Desirée Plata, is advancing critical metals refining in the U.S. by producing nickel and cobalt from battery scrap in Ohio. news.mit.edu/2025/nth-cyc...

A new study by @mancusosci.bsky.social and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social shows that intraspecies microbial conflict can block new strains from settling in. If we want long-lasting probiotics, we must account for battles within species, not just between them. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Prof. David Simchi-Levi on being awarded the Harold Larnder Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society. The award recognizes an individual who has achieved international distinction in operational research.

Congrats to Ernie Lee on being awarded a Croucher Scholarship for Doctoral Study. This award will support Lee’s research exploring the impacts of spatial heterogeneity and seasonal variations on the salt marsh wave attenuation performances.

Community members gathered with Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang to explore the Climate Project at MIT, make connections, and exchange ideas. news.mit.edu/2025/each-of...

In a new study, researchers in IDSS, LIDS, EECS and CEE collaborate to discover the root cause of a type of bias in LLMs, paving the way for more accurate and reliable AI systems. news.mit.edu/2025/unpacki...

Isabella Stewart and Skylar Gering were named 2025 DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellows! 🎉 Their research, on AI-driven materials design and offshore wind modeling, uses high-performance computing to tackle complex environmental challenges. cee.mit.edu/mit-civil-an...

We are pleased to announce new leadership for our two research laboratories. Effective July 1, Prof. John Ochsendorf will serve as the Director of the Pierce Laboratory, and Prof. Desirée Plata as Director of the Parsons Laboratory. cee.mit.edu/cee-announce...

A team led by Soroush Mahjoubi, a postdoc in CEE, built a machine-learning framework that evaluates and sorts candidate materials for cleaner concrete based on their physical and chemical properties. news.mit.edu/2025/ai-stir...

A review paper led by Evan Fricke, a research scientist in the Terrer Lab, highlights seed disperser decline and what it means for biodiversity, climate resilience, and ecosystem recovery. rdcu.be/emz6t

A new study from a team of researchers including Prof. César Terrer and research scientist Evan Fricke maps out where tree restoring can have the biggest impact, without interfering with food, water, or wildlife. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A study from the Nepf Lab helps pinpoint areas where microplastics are likely to build up, revealing that biofilms deposited by living organisms reduce the accumulation of small particles, while areas of bare sand can be hotspots. news.mit.edu/2025/study-h...

Prof. Jesse Kroll received the 2025 Capers and Marion McDonald Award, which is given annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated a lasting commitment to the personal and professional development of others. engineering.mit.edu/connect/news...

Prof. Dave Des Marais is the recipient of the 2025 Samuel M. Seegal Prize, which honors faculty who inspire students to pursue and achieve excellence. ‪@evodaveo.bsky.social‬

Cheers to our amazing CEE master’s and doctoral grads!🎓 We’re so proud of all you’ve accomplished. Congratulations, Class of 2025! 📸: Jake Belcher

Saurabh Amin has received the 2025 Common Ground Excellence in Teaching Award for his exceptional contributions in teaching classes with substantial computing content and its positive impact on students.

Course 1-12 senior Ananda Santos Figueiredo is shaping the future through a system thinking approach. “I had this persistent feeling that I was meant to go somewhere else to learn more, explore, and do more,” she says.

Researchers kept vegetables fresh without refrigeration by injecting them with melatonin using biodegradable microneedles. “This is the first time that we’ve been able to apply these microneedles to extend the shelf life of a fresh-cut crop,” Bendetto Marelli says. news.mit.edu/2025/new-tec...

Prof. Charles Harvey joined a panel of research leaders in science, economics, and climate to debunk the myths surrounding carbon capture and storage. harveylab.mit.edu/2025/05/19/t...

Congratulations to all the students, postdocs, faculty, and staff honored for their exceptional achievements at the 2025 CEE Awards Ceremony! cee.mit.edu/cee-awards-a...

“IntersectionZoo,” a benchmarking tool developed by Prof. Cathy Wu and colleagues, uses a real-world traffic problem to test progress in deep reinforcement learning algorithms. news.mit.edu/2025/new-too...

Congratulations to Marc Foster, a graduate student in the Plata Lab, and Lexy Lamar, a graduate student in the Kroll Group, on being named 2025 Martin Fellows. martin-fellows.mit.edu/fellows/curr...

Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm has been elected a 2025 ASCE Distinguished Member for his work on the nano and micromechanics of materials like concrete, rock, and bone to advance sustainable infrastructure, underground energy harvesting, and human health. www.asce.org/publications...

A new study from Prof. Tal Cohen’s research group reveals why eggshells are stronger on their sides, overturning a popular science belief. news.mit.edu/2025/mit-eng...

A new study from Prof. Tami Lieberman and collaborators reveals how facial bacteria strains emerge and why teenage years may be an optimal time to introduce probiotic treatments. @contaminatedsci.bsky.social news.mit.edu/2025/facial-...

🎧 New podcast episode out today with the brilliant (and very down-to-earth) environmental chemist Desirée Plata! @mitcee.bsky.social She believes we need to innovate while anticipating #environmental and #health problems. #environmentalchemistry #methane www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...

Research from Prof. Benedetto Marelli reveals a new way to inexpensively produce silk microneedles to deliver vitamins or agrochemicals to plants.

Prof. Charles Harvey testified on the risks of carbon sequestration in Illinois after a project leaked near the Mahomet Aquifer—a sole-source water supply for 1 million people in Central Illinois.

New research from @gioele-zardini.bsky.social explores a new way of approaching complex problems, using simple diagrams as a tool to reveal better approaches to software optimization in deep-learning models. news.mit.edu/2025/designi...

Prof. Cathy Wu and researchers in CEE, IDSS and LIDS used machine learning to develop a faster way to solve complex planning challenges, from train schedules to delivery routes. news.mit.edu/2025/faster-...

Congratulations to graduate student Anouk Fontaine on receiving the Marvin E. Goody Award. The award will support her thesis project focused on reusing steel studs to build load-bearing steel frame walls.

Alumna Emily Nachbar has spent her career tackling challenges in the energy sector. As an Energy Analyst for Arlington County, VA, she focuses on optimizing energy use across public infrastructure, proving that local action drives big change. #Energy #Climate

New research from postdoc Meghan Blumstein, Prof. David Des Marais, and colleagues at Harvard University reveals that trees in cities respond to higher temperatures differently than those in forests, potentially masking climate impacts.

Alumna Lisa Schleuter introduces young readers to infrastructure and design in her children’s book, Ollie the Civil Engineer. #MITAlumni #civilengineering #STEM #outreach cee.mit.edu/reaching-the...

After serving in the Air Force for nine years, Justin Cole pivoted his career towards climate work, majoring in Course 1-12 Climate System Science and Engineering to pursue “having an equitable world, where we have reinforced food systems and energy systems,” he says.

U.S. Air Force engineer and PhD student Randall Pietersen is using AI and next-generation imaging technology to detect pavement damage and unexploded munitions. news.mit.edu/2025/randall...