In the Media
Jun 25, 2024
Scientists Sound Alarm Over Threat Altering Ocean’s Ability To Absorb Carbon: ‘A Threat to Global Scale Processes’
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins was featured in the Yahoo article “Scientists Sound Alarm Over Threat Altering Ocean’s Ability To Absorb Carbon: ‘A Threat to Global Scale Processes’.”
May 15, 2024
What the EPA’s Ban on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Means for Massachusetts
CEE Assistant Professor Julia Hopkins was featured in the Boston Globe article What the EPA’s ban on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water means for Massachusetts.
Apr 22, 2024
5 NSF Projects Transforming How Researchers Understand Plastic Waste
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins’ research on plastic pollution was featured in the NSF article “5 NSF Projects Transforming How Researchers Understand Plastic Waste.”
Apr 01, 2024
Jerome Hajjar on the Future of Sustainable, Resilient Structures: ‘Let’s Lead a Culture Shift’
CEE Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar was featured in the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) article “Jerome Hajjar on the Future of Sustainable, Resilient Structures: ‘Let’s Lead a Culture Shift’.“
Feb 02, 2024
How Sunlight Degrades Marine Plastics
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins was featured in the PBS Instagram post “How Sunlight Degrades Marine Plastics.” This research was published as “Molecular Signatures of Dissolved Organic Matter Generated from the Photodissolution of Microplastics in Sunlit Seawater” in Environmental Science & Technology and “Photochemical dissolution of buoyant microplastics to dissolved organic carbon: Rates and microbial impacts” […]
Nov 20, 2023
New Tool for Building and Fixing Roads and Bridges: Artificial Intelligence
CEE/Khoury Assistant Professor Fatemeh Ghoreishi was featured in the New York Times article “New Tool for Building and Fixing Roads and Bridges: Artificial Intelligence.”
Oct 18, 2023
Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Munoz was featured in the Scientific American article “Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often.”
Oct 18, 2023
WBUR: To Slow Climate Change, Some Want to ‘Engineer the Ocean’
University Distinguished and Snell Professor of Engineering Akram Alshawabkeh’s lab is working with Sr. Scientist Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to see if a simple, solar-powered battery attached to a small float might be able to deliver a constant, low-dose of iron in the ocean to address climate change. View the WBUR […]