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Aug 01, 2025

Warming Temperatures Making “Weather Whiplash” More Common

CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly examines how rising temperatures are causing rapid transitions in the weather, leading to catastrophic natural disasters. 

Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Jul 22, 2025

Advancing Weather Prediction for Defense Applications

CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly is the lead PI for a $1,000,000 grant from the Air Force Weather titled “Weather Ensemble Analytics and Visualization Environment (WEAVE)”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jul 17, 2025

The Impact of Water Scarcity

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Pujas Das using Earth systems models found there is an alarming decrease in runoff from the world’s major rivers. CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly co-authored Das’s paper that details the negative impacts of declining runoff on humans and the world as a whole.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jul 17, 2025

Fall 2025 AJC Merit Research Scholars

Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 15, 2025

Working With Communities To Reduce Flood Risk

MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz, Assistant Professor James Dennedy-Frank, and CEE Affiliated Faculty Geoffrey C. Trussell were awarded a $998,696 NSF grant for “Working with communities to reduce flood risk and increase resilience.”

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 25, 2025

Hajjar Receives 2025 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award

CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award for his exceptional “leadership in advancing civil engineering education, computational analysis, experimental testing, field investigation, and design of resilient and sustainable steel and composite steel/concrete buildings, bridges, and infrastructure systems; regional simulation; structural stability; and earthquake engineering.”

Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Jun 24, 2025

Newly Founded Plastics Center Strives for Innovative Solutions to Plastic Waste

MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins will co-direct the new Plastics Center at Northeastern University. The center’s goal is to bring together plastic researchers and expand knowledge about plastics and public policy. 

Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Jun 13, 2025

Summit Explores Complex Risk Science

A one-day invitation-only summit event titled “Boston-Area Complex Risk Science: Exploring new Frontiers and a New Community for Understanding Risk,” was held on June 9, 2025, at Northeastern University. Summit sponsors included CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, who leads Northeastern University’s Sustainability and Data Sciences (SDS) Lab, as well as the Institute for Experiential AI, AI for Climate and Sustainability (AI4CaS), and Ryan McGranaghan, research scientist and data scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Civil & Environmental Engineering