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Aug 10, 2012
New Research Grant on Offshore Wind Farms
CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers,Professor & Chair Jerry Hajjar, and Sanjay Arwade, Associate Professor at UMass Amherst, have received a new $325K research grant from NSF on Reliability-based Hurricane Risk Assessment for Offshore Wind Farms.
Aug 02, 2012
Professor Ganguly Discusses Droughts
Inspired by the current drought, which has left countless counties across the U.S. to be considered "natural disaster areas" by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly sheds light on drought conditions, the difficulties involved in predicting droughts, and precautionary measures to limit their potential damage.
Aug 01, 2012
New Faculty Spotlight: Matthias Ruth
Matthias Ruth joined the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a Professor in Fall 2012. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of […]
Aug 01, 2012
New Faculty Spotlight: Steven W. Cranford
Steven W. Cranford joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering during the Fall 2012 semester as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Cranford received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Memorial University and an M.S. in Structural Engineering from Stanford University. For his Ph.D. studies, he joined the Laboratory of Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM) at […]
Jul 31, 2012
Selenium Remediation
CEE Assistant Professor Philip Larese-Casanova & Assistant Academic Specialist Annalisa Onnis-Hayden were awarded a $305K NSF grant to reduce selenium pollution by using oxygen isotopes.
Jul 23, 2012
CEE Student Presents at Emerging Markets Symposium
Liz Cherchia, a junior in the CEE Department, presented at Northeastern University's 4th Annual Emerging Markets Symposium on July 19, 2012.
Jul 16, 2012
Northeastern University Hosts the 2012 NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference
Northeastern University's College of Engineering hosted the National Science Foundation's 2012 Engineering Research and Innovation Conference for the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) from July 9-12, 2012.
Jul 05, 2012
Protect the water
One of the big ideas in healthcare today is preventative medicine. Treat the causes instead of the symptoms, proponents say, and you’ll keep people healthy and avoid expensive procedures down the road. I wholeheartedly agree with this approach. To me, continuously investing in newer, better treatment strategies should be accompanied by a parallel efforts in […]