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Ten things to do on Northeastern’s Boston campus for National Engineers Week

Learn how industrial engineers are fighting human trafficking. Examine robots that fly, drive, and swim. Tour labs in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex.
- by David Harbeck February 15, 2019
Global climate deal to phase out fast-growing pollutant. What happens next?

More than 170 countries reached a landmark climate deal last weekend to limit the use of a chemical used in air conditioners and refrigerators that’s been called the world’s fastest-growing climate pollutant. Northeastern professor Matthew Eckelman weighs in on the deal’s significance and the environmental trade offs that come with replacing one technology with another.
- by Greg St. Martin October 19, 2016
Influence of Young Scholars Program reverberates through time

As a rising high school senior, assistant professor Matthew Eckelman, spent a summer at Northeastern simulating earthquakes on a shaker table to evaluate the stability of landfill liner systems. Twenty-one years later, he’s come full circle, hosting young scholars in his lab, guiding them toward STEM careers.
- by Thea Singer August 18, 2016
Researchers reveal the hidden environmental and public health impacts of the US healthcare sector

Over the past 10 years, the U.S. healthcare sector’s greenhouse gas emissions grew by more than 30 percent, accounting for 9.8 percent of the national total in 2013. “If the U.S. healthcare sector were itself a country, it would rank 13th in the world for greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of the entire U.K.,” states a new paper coauthored by Northeastern researcher Matthew Eckelman.
- by Thea Singer June 10, 2016
To battle natural hazards, interdisciplinary research team turns to resilient, sustainable buildings

A team of Northeastern researchers has received a National Science Foundation grant to develop a decision framework for designing buildings that are both resilient and sustainable in the face of multiple environmental hazards like earthquakes, flooding, and heavy winds.
- by Greg St. Martin April 23, 2015

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