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Aug 09, 2013
The new American hamburger…?
Twenty six billion pounds. That’s roughly how much beef Americans consume each year. We get it from some 33 million cows that are largely raised in centralized, industrial feed operations that collectively use more energy, water, and land per calorie produced than any other food group out there. So when I heard the news of the lab-grown beef the other […]
Aug 04, 2013
Don’t delay: Early engineering intro pays off
When Mohit Bhardwaj was a freshman in high school he traveled from his home in Lusaka, Zambia to Boston. with Lead America. For nine days, he and a group of 19 other students from around the globe studied leadership and engineering at Olin college. They learned to work on teams building Lego robots, popsicle stick […]
Aug 01, 2013
New Faculty Spotlight: Mark R. Patterson
Mark R. Patterson joins the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a joint appointment in Marine and Environmental Sciences in the College of Science, during Fall 2013 as Professor. Dr. Patterson directs the Field Robotics Laboratory at the Marine Science Center in Nahant. He develops Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (free-swimming robots) and methods to use […]
Aug 01, 2013
New Faculty Spotlight: Loretta A. Fernandez
Loretta A. Fernandez joins the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Science in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences as an assistant professor in Fall 2013. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University before pursuing S.M. and Ph.D. degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her graduate […]
Aug 01, 2013
New Faculty Spotlight: David Fannon
David Fannon is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, joining the university in Fall 2013.. David is an architect and building scientist whose work integrates research, analysis, and design to develop new strategies for buildings and cities. His expertise includes design, […]
Aug 01, 2013
New Faculty Spotlight: Edward Beighley
Edward Beighley joins the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Fall 2013 semester as an Associate Professor. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Maryland, where he focused on quantifying the hydrologic […]
Aug 01, 2013
Harnessing Wind Energy
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Andrew Myers was awarded a $200K National Science Foundation grant to develop a reliability-based design for constructing advanced wind turbines. Dr. Myers is the Principal Investigator at the Northeastern University Sustainable Structures Group. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Steel Construction and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Jul 31, 2013
The past, present, and future of nanomedicine
Each year, nearly $18 billion is spent on nanomedicine research. But since the field’s inception more than a decade ago, little of that research, though promising, has been successfully translated into commercial products. Last weekend, more than 150 students, researchers, and industry experts from around the world convened to discuss the challenges accounting for this […]