In the Media
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)
Dec 05, 2022
Are Volcanoes Impacted by Climate Change? Or Is it the Other Way Around?
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz was featured in the Phys.org article “Are volcanoes impacted by climate change? Or is it the other way around?“
Nov 21, 2022
A Million Migrating Birds Expecting Kansas Wetlands Will Find Dust
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.
Nov 07, 2022
Invest 98-L’s Spaghetti Models Reveal Storm Nicole’s Path Toward Florida
Auroop Ganguly, director of the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University, 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.
Oct 27, 2022
‘If I Were a Hospital, I’d be Reading the Tea Leaves’: Pressures Grow on the Health Care Industry to Reduce its Climate Pollution
The widely quoted statistic that health care accounts for 8.5% of the nation’s emissions was developed by Matthew Eckelman, associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, Yale’s Sherman, and other colleagues. (Featured in Stat News)
Oct 10, 2022
Is Building More Dams the Way to Save Rivers?
“We have to design for the worst cases,” says Auroop Ganguly, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. (featured in National Geographic)