News
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 different metals. Dr. Eckelman received his BA in Physics and Mathematics from Amherst College and his MS and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Yale. PLOS […]
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.
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 multi-university research team previously received a $10 million NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Superfund Research Program grant in 2010 to establish the Puerto Rico Testsite for […]
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.
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). Mr. Kennedy has over 40 years of active professional experience as a traffic engineer, 38 years of active membership in ITE, including elected leadership positions […]
May 06, 2014
From climate change comes opportunity to innovate
A cursory look at the Third National Climate Assessment released Tuesday by the National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee yields a grim outlook. The authors state that climate change is already beginning to impact nearly every sector of the economy—and that’s not all: It’s already threatening human health and well being and adversely affecting our infrastructures, […]
Apr 30, 2014
Mission 31 to splash down on June 1
Nine miles off the coast of Key Largo, Fla., and 63 feet beneath the waves lies the world’s only underwater research lab: Aquarius. “There’s no place like it on earth,” said Mark Patterson, professor of marine and environmental science and civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, who has visited and lived within the “habitat” 10 times. In the years it […]
Apr 03, 2014
CEE at the 2014 SEI Structures Congress
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and colleagues from Northeastern University had a strong presence at the 2014 SEI Structures Congress that took place in Boston in April.