News
Aug 05, 2025
MassDOT’s Jonathan Gulliver joins CEE Industrial Advisory Board
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce that Jonathan Gulliver will be joining our Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), beginning with the Fall 2025 semester. The IAB […]
Aug 01, 2025
Research Shows U.S. is Unprepared for Aging Population
CEE Associate Professor Qi “Ryan” Wang found disparities in access to grocery stores and healthcare in the United States for older adults, which could potentially lead to issues for the aging population.
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.
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)”.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”