Faculty Highlights

This space is dedicated to featuring the accomplishments of Northeastern tenure track faculty. The accomplishments of Northeastern faculty at all levels are featured in a number University communications including the following websites: Research, Provost, Public Relations, and The Voice.

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Congratulations to Northeastern Tenure Track Faculty who have received the NSF Career Award. This NSF Award is very prestigious and requires an integrated research and education plan. See our recent CAREER awardees and learn about their research. More>>

Congratulations to Professor Becky Rosengaus (Biology) who received a Presidental Early Career Award from President Bush at the White House on July 26, 2006. Less then 1% of faculty who apply for the prestigous NSF Career Award receive Presidential recognition. More information about this great honor to Becky and to Northeastern is available at the Northeastern press release. Press releases are also available at the National Science Foundation and the Office for Science and Technology Policy.

Professor Timothy Bickmore (Computer and Information Science) has been awarded a 2006 NSF CAREER Development Award entitled "CAREER: A Virtual Laboratory for Studying Long-Term Human-Computer Relationships."

Professor Catherine Dolan is working on a National Science Foundation research grant on Tracing the Socioeconomic Effects of Fair Trade in Kenya.

Professor Smith has been invited to be in residence at STEIM in Amsterdam, NL, June 25-July 1. 2006. During the residency he will work with Dutch/American clarinetist Laura Carmichael on a piece for clarinet and live electronics; will perform a concert with Carmichael on June 28; will give a lecture/workshop on his compositions; and will record his Something Suspicious for bass clarinet and live electronics for a forthcoming CD. STEIM is an internationally renowned computer music center and is the only independent live electronic music center in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. (http://www.steim.org/steim/info.html).

Congratulations to Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Mehrdad Sasani who received a 2006 NSF Career grant and additional NSF grant related to study the progressive collapse of structures. More>>

Professor Smith of the Music Department has had a number of works on the road. His composition Rain Cycles was published on CD by Artifact Music, his composition Something Suspicious (Small) has been presented in the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, CA with European premiers in 2006.

Professor Friedman of Sociology and Anthropology received a book contract for her manuscript titled, The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market. The book will be co-authored with Professor Emily Rosenbaum and published by the New York University Press.

The Wall Street Journal cited Northeastern Professor Walter Carl's study of word-of-mouth communication in Marketing. More>>

Congratulations to Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Mehrdad Sasani who received an NSF grant titled Implosion of a Building and Progressive Collapse Analysis of Structures .
Web: http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~sasani/

Professor Ferdi Hellweger (Civil & Environmental Engineering) co-hosted a workshop on December 2, 2005 to evaluate the environmental impacts of Hurricane Katrina.
Ferdi’s Web: http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~ferdi/
Workshop press release: http://www.nupr.neu.edu/11-05/katrina.shtml