News
Aug 15, 2024
Chemicals in Personal Care Products Can Cause Health Problems
Bouve/CEE Assistant Professor Julia Varshavsky’s research from a study she led in Puerto Rico in affiliation with the PROTECT Center was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. It shows chemicals like phenols and parabens in products such as sunscreen and makeup can result in long-term health problems for both the woman and fetus.
Aug 14, 2024
New Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Nichols
Tiffany Nichols joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2024 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in History.
Aug 12, 2024
Northeastern University and SEI Host ‘Towards Zero Carbon’ Workshop
Northeastern and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) hosted a conference focused on decarbonization and new design objectives for the structural engineering industry. University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and CEE Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, who is also SEI president, led the conference and emphasized concepts of sustainability, equity, and resilience.
Aug 01, 2024
$1.6M NSF Award for Creating Inclusive Cities Through Technology
CEE Associate Professor Qi “Ryan” Wang and ECE Associate Professor Yanzhi Wang, in collaboration with the University of Florida and the University of Virginia, received a $1.6 million NSF grant for “Strengthening Elderly Mobility in Urban Landscapes: Towards Age-Inclusive and Equitable Communities.”
Jul 29, 2024
Highlighting the Unusual Activity of Coralliths
MES/CEE Professor Mark Patterson published a paper in Bulletin of Marine Science that reveals activity of corallith, an unusual free-living coral found of the Florida coast that thrives from the energy of storms.
Jul 24, 2024
Predicting Rainfall With Artificial Intelligence
A research model that uses AI to quickly and accurately predict weather forecasts will be tested by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The model was created by Puja Das, PhD’27, interdisciplinary engineering, who is supervised by CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly.
Jul 19, 2024
Innovating Through Artificial Intelligence
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, state economic development and technology leaders, and other officials visited Northeastern to learn from faculty how AI can solve some of the most pressing issues in the state and the world. CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, ECE/Khoury Distinguished Professor Jennifer Dy, and ECE Professor Taskin Padir were in attendance.
Jul 17, 2024
Phase II of NOWRDC Offshore Wind Hurricane Risk Assessment Project
CEE Professor Andrew Myers, University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, and Research Associate Professor Nathan Post are leading a team of five universities for Phase II of the NOWRDC administered project, “Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation.”