PROTECT Center News
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 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 […]
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, and what factors increase their likelihood? There are many types of landslides, but the one that occurred in Washington state appears to be a […]
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 widespread contamination of trichloroethylene through bioremediation, chemical reduction, and oxidation. But now three Northeastern researchers—members of one of Northeastern’s federally-funded research centers—are developing an electrochemical […]
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.