{"id":9,"date":"2020-04-10T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:32:14","slug":"about-the-comm-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/about-the-comm-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid\">\n<article id=\"post-25\" class=\"grid__item one-whole s-one-whole xs-one-whole class=\">\n<h2>Since 2020, the CEE Communication Lab has been supporting civil and environmental engineers and scientists communicate more effectively.<\/h2>\n<p>Our team of trained <a href=\"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/fellows-staff\/\">CEE Communication Fellows<\/a> provides one-on-one coaching and interactive workshops for the CEE community. We provide guidance for a range of communication tasks, such as journal articles and presentations, PhD dissertations and job applications, and even social media posts. Our goal is to support the growth of our peers by sharing both conceptual and practical strategies for tackling CEE-specific communication challenges.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-939\" src=\"http:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Overview-slide-2-5-25-700x381.png\" alt=\"The CEE Comm Lab supports students and postdocs through peer coaching, workshops, events, class visits, and online resources.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Overview-slide-2-5-25-700x381.png 700w, https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Overview-slide-2-5-25-250x136.png 250w, https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Overview-slide-2-5-25-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Overview-slide-2-5-25-120x65.png 120w, https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Overview-slide-2-5-25.png 1204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-25\" class=\"grid__item one-whole s-one-whole xs-one-whole class=\">\n<h2>Interested in becoming a Comm Fellow?<\/h2>\n<p>MIT CEE-affiliated PhD students and postdocs are eligible. We recruit new Comm Fellows once per year with applications typically opening in January. Fill out this <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/9w56Vo1aXoqpZndP6\">interest form<\/a> if you\u2019d like to be contacted when applications open.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2020, the CEE Communication Lab has been supporting civil and environmental engineers and scientists communicate more effectively. Our team of trained CEE Communication Fellows provides one-on-one coaching and interactive workshops for the CEE community. We provide guidance for a range of communication tasks, such as journal articles and presentations, PhD dissertations and job applications,&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/about-the-comm-lab\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}