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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 […]
Feb 21, 2020
Road Salt Contaminating Unregulated Water Supplies
CEE Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper is researching water contaminated with road salt in communities that use private wells, natural springs, and cisterns.
Feb 20, 2020
Myers Awarded MassCEC Grant for Innovative Floating Wind Turbine
CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers and co-inventor Jim Papadopoulos were one of 18 groups awarded funding from a new $1.7M grant by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s (MassCEC) Catalyst and InnovateMass programs in support of clean energy startups and research teams across the Commonwealth.
Feb 18, 2020
DURABLE: Sustainable Material Ecologies, Assemblies and Cultures
A new exhibition at the BSA Space – DURABLE: Sustainable Material Ecologies, Assemblies, and Cultures, curated by CEE faculty David Fannon and Matthew Eckelman, as well as Architecture faculty Michelle Laboy and Peter Wiederspahn, explores the materials used to construct the built environment which are critical components to the sustainability of our cities.
Feb 10, 2020
Essentials of Civil Engineering Materials
CEE Associate Teaching Professor Kathryn E. Schulte Grahame, Assistant Teaching Professor Craig M. Shillaber, and Associate Professor Matthew J. Eckelman published the book “Essentials of Civil Engineering Materials”.