News
Oct 08, 2010
Impact of TiO2 Nanoparticles
CEE Assistant Professor April Gu’s research was featured in the latest issue of Chemical & Engineering News describing how TiO2 nanomaterials are affecting the carbon and nitrogen cycles of aquatic ecosystems.
Sep 29, 2010
Moving Society Forward
CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, is a recipient of a 2010 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for his work in creating building structures that are earthquake proof.
Sep 09, 2010
ChE Alum Donates $12M
Chemical Engineering Alumnus George J. Kostas has donated $12M to build a homeland security research facility on Northeastern's Burlington Campus. This is the largest donation for capital in the University's history.
Sep 01, 2010
New Faculty Spotlight: Philip Larese-Casanova
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering welcomes Assistant Professor Philip Larese-Casanova, who joined the faculty in Fall 2010 after serving as a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute for Biospheric Studies at Yale University and the Center for Applied Geosciences at the Eberhard-Karls University Tuebingen in Germany.
Aug 10, 2010
Monitoring Water Quality
Xioadan Ruan, a CEE PhD student under the direction of Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger, has been testing bacteria levels in the Charles River in hopes that it will once again be swimmable.
Jul 01, 2010
Deborah A. Snyder (BSCE 1999) wins the 2010 Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement from the ASCE
The Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement is made to younger members of ASCE who are judged to have attained significant professional achievements by the degree to which […]
Jun 28, 2010
Bernal Receives NSF Grant
CIV Professor Dionisio Bernal received a $130K NSF grant to explore his research Algorithm-Fused High Performance Damage Detector: Optimal Sensor Distributions.
Jun 28, 2010
Congratulations
Beverly Jaeger, Susan Freeman, Rich Whalen, & Rebecca Payne won Best Paper for PIC III as well as Best Paper Overall at the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference for their paper “Successful Students: Smart or Tough?”. Both awards will be announced in the November issue of Prism.