PROTECT Center News
Jul 19, 2016
Working with the Community to Determine Environmental Health
NIEHS director Linda Birnbaum spoke at the Alumni Center on the importance of PROTECT's first multi-country study Zika in Infants and Pregnancy (ZIP). Source: News @ Northeastern “You can’t change […]
Sep 24, 2015
Research Fair a Big Success
The COE Undergraduate Research Lab fair gathered hundreds of students eager to learn about the research opportunities available to them.
Sep 21, 2015
COE Receives 12th Federally Funded Center
CEE Professor Akram Alshawabkeh and his team were awarded a $2.9M federally funded grant for a “Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico (CRECE).”
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 […]
Mar 28, 2014
Learning from Tragedy
After the recent landslide in Washington, CIV professor & Senior Associate Dean Thomas Sheahan discusses what causes a mudslide and possible preventative measures. What is the anatomy of a landslide, […]
Jul 19, 2013
A green, inexpensive solution to groundwater contamination
Trichloroethylene—a degreasing agent frequently used for military and industrial applications—has seeped into groundwater around the world, with serious health consequences. Scientists have thus far had little success in reducing the […]
Apr 13, 2010
Alshawabkeh Wins NIH Grant
Akram Alshawabkeh, a CIV professor, has received a $9.8M NIH/NIEHS grant to study the underlying environmental causes of preterm birth rates on the island of Puerto Rico.