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Jan 06, 2014

Patterson Awarded Grant

Professor Mark Patterson, an affiliate of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Science, was awarded a $291K grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to determine how […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 25, 2013

Sharrows on Steroids

Boston installs "sharrows on steroids," a new way of marking lanes shared by bikes and cars, invented by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Peter Furth. Dr. Furth received a Ph.D. degree in […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 21, 2013

Robotic inspectors on disaster duty

In March 2011, the Tohoku earth­quake in Japan ini­ti­ated a tsunami that wreaked havoc across the coast of the island nation. The most infa­mous damage occurred when the Fukushima Daichii […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 20, 2013

A sustainable breeding ground for collaboration

A com­plex struc­ture the size of a shoebox perched on a table’s edge in Curry Stu­dent Center Ball­room on Monday evening. The 3-​​D printed con­struc­tion resem­bled a series of tiny, […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 06, 2013

Hey, bacteria are individuals too

Each person car­ries 10 times as many bac­te­rial cells as human cells, the former of which have con­tinued to evolve in response to medicine’s most potent antibi­otics. But micro­scopic bugs […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Oct 29, 2013

CEE 2013 Graduate Steven Earl wins AISC National Scholarship

Congratulations to CEE 2013 graduate Steven Earl who was selected to receive a $5,000 Education Foundation Scholarship from American Institute of Steel Construction. This scholarship is awarded to students with […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Oct 22, 2013

NU Civil Engineering Students Participate in the 18th Annual CANstruction Competition

The NU Chapter of Chi Epsilon created a “Defeating Despicable Hunger” display made of over 3000 non-perishable food cans at the 2013 CANstruction competition.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Oct 01, 2013

David Bedoya (Ph.D., 2009) wins 2013 BSCES Clemens Herschel Award

Congratulations to Northeastern University alumnus and Civil and Environmental Engineering part-time faculty member David Bedoya, who won the 2013 Clemens Herschel Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering