In the Media
Apr 24, 2023
Concern About Parking Garage Safety in Mass. in Wake of Deadly Collapse in New York City
CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani was featured in the CBS News article “Concern about parking garage safety in Mass. in wake of deadly collapse in New York City.”
Apr 03, 2023
Pedestrian Deaths Are up Sharply in Mass. Here Are Five Ways to Reduce Them
CEE Professor Peter Furth was featured in the Boston Globe article “Pedestrian deaths are up sharply in Mass. Here are five ways to reduce them” for his suggestions to improve traffic safety.
Feb 21, 2023
‘Very Simple Things’: Earthquake Engineers on what Went Wrong in Turkey
CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani was featured in the Middle East Eye article “‘Very simple things’: Earthquake engineers on what went wrong in Turkey.”
Jan 20, 2023
Renovation of Northeastern University Engineering Lab to Spark Urban Design Innovation
The new Civil and Environmental Engineering Design Studio was featured in the Boston Real Estate Times article “Renovation of Northeastern University Engineering Lab to Spark Urban Design Innovation.”
Jan 06, 2023
Is California Still in a Drought?
Auroop Ganguly, director of the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University, Boston, told Newsweek, “On the hydrometeorological hazards side, heat waves are getting—and are further projected to get—even hotter, cold snaps persisting even if growing less frequent, heavy precipitation getting heavier, and so on.”
Dec 21, 2022
‘The Anxiety Is Unreal’ for Parents at Boston Intersection Where Kids Have to Dodge Cars
Peter Furth, a professor at Northeastern University, has been studying the traffic issues and says he met with officials at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Tuesday in an effort to find a solution. (Featured in NBC Boston)
Dec 14, 2022
MassDOT Plans to Tweak Its Highway ‘Blunder’ in Back Bay
Featured in a StreetsBlog article, a 2015 research project by Northeastern University student Dixian Qui and civil engineering professor Peter Furth made the argument that the Bowker Overpass is unnecessary, even under traffic engineers’ traditional logic that prioritizes minimal amounts of delay for people in cars.
Dec 13, 2022
23 Predictions for 2023
“We need to be open to the possibility of relocation” says Auroop R. Ganguly, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University (featured in Grist Magazine)