According to Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, conventional adobe houses also lack the kind of reinforcing components that would give a building structural integrity and prevent, say, the roof from collapsing under lateral loads.

Northeastern University in Boston has been chosen as the home of a center to detect and prepare for the next outbreak of infectious disease.

The Centers for Disease Control is granting $17.5 million to Northeastern for outbreak preparation.

“Various plastic bans have been considered in the state legislature for a number of years and they never act on it,” said Professor Joan Fitzgerald, a public policy and climate expert at Northeastern.

The drug was discovered and has been studied by scientists from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, the University of Bonn in Germany, the German Center for Infection Research, Northeastern University in Boston, and NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Brian Helmuth, a professor of marine and environmental science at Northeastern University, says it would make sense for alien life to begin a trip to Earth by exploring the world’s oceans.