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Aug 04, 2014

Hot & Cold Climate Extremes

CIV Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly used Big Data tools to determine that global warming will result in both hot and cold extreme temperature fluctuation.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jul 31, 2014

Northeastern Engineering announces 8 Young Investigator Awards in 2013-2014

These faculty recognitions bring the total young investigator awards in the college to 39, including 25 NSF CAREER and 10 DOD Young Investigator awards.

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

Jul 22, 2014

Interdisciplinary NSF Grant

Electrical & Computer Engineering Associate Professor Jennifer Dy, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly & Affiliated Assistant Professor Tarik Gouhier were awarded an $1.2M NSF Cyber SEES grant […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 17, 2014

Life Cycles of Metals

Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Matthew Eckelman was published in PLOS ONE for his research “Life Cycle Assessment of Metals: A Scientific Synthesis”, which examines the environmental impacts of 63 […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 30, 2014

A simpler way to test for water pollution

Some of the toxins found in our air and water­ways were put there inten­tion­ally: DDT, for instance, was intro­duced to pro­tect against malaria and other insect-​​borne dis­eases. Others find their way into the envi­ron­ment unintentionally.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 02, 2014

Northeastern Awarded NIH Grant to Study Links Between Contaminants, Preterm Birth

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity has received a five-​​year, $13.5 mil­lion award from the National Insti­tutes of Health to con­tinue its inter­dis­ci­pli­nary inves­ti­ga­tion into the com­plex rela­tion­ship between envi­ron­mental con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and preterm birth. The […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 08, 2014

Young humanitarians win national award

The Engineers Without Borders student group was named the National Premier Student Chapter for 2014 from a pool of over 200 student chapters from around the country.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 07, 2014

John Kennedy (BSCE, 1972) Elected International Vice President of ITE

Congratulations to John Kennedy, Northeastern Alumnus and Senior Principal and co-founder of VHB, who was recently elected as the 2014 International Vice President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering