News
Jan 28, 2025
First Cohort of NSF NRT Student Trainees Share Value of Interdisciplinary Research
The first cohort of trainees of the NSF NRT Platforms for Exchange and Allocation of Resources grant share the value of the program’s interdisciplinary research, stipends, curriculum, seminars, and faculty mentorship. Applications are now open to be a trainee for the fall 2025 semester.
Jan 14, 2025
Spring 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.
Jan 13, 2025
PhD Student Receives Best Paper Finalist Award at 2025 AIAA SciTech
Negar Asadi, PhD ’26, interdisciplinary engineering, under the supervision of CEE/Khoury Assistant Professor Fatemeh Ghoreishi, received the Best Paper Finalist Award at the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum.
Jan 10, 2025
Furth Wins Transportation Research Board Exceptional Paper Award
CEE Professor Peter Furth and his former student Milad Tahmasebi, PhD’24, civil engineering, won the Exceptional Paper Award at the 104th Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting for “Reducing Speeding by Removing Speeding Opportunities: Field Test of Safe Waves Traffic Signal Timing.”
Jan 06, 2025
Hajjar Receives SSRC Distinguished Member Award
CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) Distinguished Member Award, which is presented annually to an SSRC member who has actively served the organization for years and made outstanding contributions to its work and mission.
Dec 14, 2024
Using AI for Disaster Response Research
CEE/Khoury Assistant Professor Fatemeh Ghoreishi, in collaboration with the University of Utah and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, was awarded a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Army for the project, “Interactive Human-Agent Teaming Via Multiple Feedback Types,” which aims to develop advanced machine learning and optimization techniques to provide real-time guidance and recommendations for human teams operating in disaster scenarios.
Dec 11, 2024
New Faculty Spotlight: Yang (Gilbert) Ye
Gilbert Ye joins the civil and environmental engineering department in January 2025 as an assistant professor.
Nov 27, 2024
Rapidly Screening for Environmental Toxins
Bouvé/CEE Assistant Professor Julia Varshavsky’s research on “Analyzing High-Throughput Assay Data To Advance the Rapid Screening of Environmental Chemicals for Human Reproductive Toxicity” was published in Reproductive Toxicology.