News
Oct 07, 2026
Forever Chemicals Raise Pregnancy Blood Pressure Risks
Bouvé/CEE Assistant Professor Julia Varshavsky led a Northeastern study linking exposure to “forever chemicals” (PFAS) during pregnancy with an increased risk of hypertension later in gestation, particularly among first-time mothers and those carrying female fetuses.
Oct 05, 2026
Northeastern Engineering Students Win National Title at WEFTEC 2026 Student Design Competition
A civil and environmental engineering student team won the 2026 Water Environment Federation Student Design Competition by designing a modernized wastewater treatment facility for Manchester, Maryland, that meets strict nutrient limits and reuses treated water for local athletic fields and a Christmas tree farm.
Sep 21, 2026
Fall 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Fall 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Sep 11, 2026
AIResQ Startup Uses Physics-Guided AI for Flood Resilience
Co-founded by CEE PhD alumni Udit Bhatia, PhD’18, and COE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, the startup AIResQ combines physics-guided artificial intelligence with localized data and custom low-cost sensors to help Indian cities and transportation networks predict and prepare for monsoon floods in real time.
Sep 04, 2026
New Faculty Spotlight: Enrique del Castillo
Enrique del Castillo joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in July 2026 as an Assistant Professor.
Sep 03, 2026
Interdisciplinary Team Receives NSF FIRE Grant to Study FireScreens for Wildfire Safety
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis, CEE Professor Luca Caracoglia, Affiliated Faculty Michelle Laboy, and MIE Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton were awarded a $1.06M NSF Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) grant for “Investigating Potential Solutions to Reduce Wildfire Risk Through Structural Hardening.”
Sep 02, 2026
Multifactorial Causes of Himalaya Flood Devastation
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly explains that the catastrophic devastation from the recent flood in Nepal and Tibet was driven by a combination of natural triggers—such as a dislodged glacier chunk mixing with monsoon sediments—and human factors like land-use choices, lack of infrastructure preparedness, and high regional vulnerability.
Sep 01, 2026
Liu to Lead New $1.2M Collaborative NSF Grant on Wildfire Emissions
Under a new $1.2M grant from the National Science Foundation’s Fire Science Innovations program, civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Shang Liu will lead a multi-institution study of emissions from building materials burned during wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires for the project “Investigating Fire Behavior-Emission Relationships for Building Materials.”