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Apr 03, 2020
2020 Fulbright Scholarship for Environmental Engineering
Madeline DuBois, BS Environmental Engineering, was awarded a 2020 Fulbright scholarship at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark to study agriculture with a specialization in production and the environment.
Mar 31, 2020
2020 NSF GRFP Recipients
Several current students and alumni are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards.
Mar 31, 2020
Northeastern launches New MS in Civil Engineering Concentration in Data and Systems
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is launching a new concentration in Data and Systems as part of its Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering. Students in Data and Systems will gain expertise in big data, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI), and their application for a systems-level analysis of problems in the civil and environmental engineering domain.
Mar 27, 2020
Loretta Fernandez and Alice Wang recognized for 2019 Top 10 Exceptional Papers by ET&C
CEE/COS Assistant Professor Loretta A. Fernandez and doctoral alumna Dr. Alice Peiying Wang were recognized with a 2019 Top 10 Exceptional Paper Award by the editors of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (ET&C) for their article titled “Bioaccumulation in Functionally Different Species: Ongoing Input of PCBs with Sediment Deposition to Activated Carbon Remediated Bed Sediments”.
Mar 26, 2020
Research Reveals Air Pollution Costs US Estimated $1B a Year in Perennial Crop Yield
CEE Professor Yang Zhang co-authored a paper titled “Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California,” which was recently published in Nature Food.
Mar 23, 2020
PROTECT Research Center: Continuing a Bold Mission for Environmental Health
This week, the PROTECT multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research center, led by Akram Alshawabkeh, Director of PROTECT, and Snell Professor of Engineering and Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, was awarded a five-year $10.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue and expand its work. This next phase of PROTECT research will include the study of an additional 1,000 pregnant women and look at a mixture of chemicals beyond the initial two suspect chemical classes.
Mar 09, 2020
Shashank Konduri wins 1st Place Poster Presentation at American Meteorological Society’s 100th Annual Meeting
Interdisciplinary PhD student Shashank Konduri received the 1st Place Poster Presentation Award for his poster on “In-season crop mapping for the continental United States” at the American Meteorological Society’s 100th Annual Meeting.
Mar 04, 2020
Michael Tormey Named to ASCE 2020 New Faces of Civil Engineering Collegiate Edition
Northeastern University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering student Michael Tormey was named to the 2020 list ‘New Faces of Civil Engineering Collegiate Edition’. Every year, the American Society of […]