Category: News
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My 2024 in flight emissions
In 2019, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic in 15 days to attend a UN Climate Action Summit, making a point about her values relative to the carbon footprint of transportation. Each year, countless academics who advance research related to mitigating the impacts of climate change travel to conferences around the world. When I…
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PhD recruitment for Fall 2025
Prospective PhD students are welcome to apply to work with me through CAMD’s Interdisciplinary Design and Media PhD program. The deadline for admission for fall 2025 is strictly December 1, 2024; more information and upcoming information sessions are available at the CAMD webpage. Description This PhD position comes with two years of open-ended funding and…
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Recruiting students at all levels
I am currently seeking highly motivated undergraduate or master’s student(s) of all disciplinary backgrounds at Northeastern University to serve as research assistant(s), available immediately. I also welcome PhD applicants for Fall 2025, with a December 1 deadline. Visit Join / Collaborate for more information.
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Hello, world! from Northeastern University
I’ve been enjoying the first few months of my postdoc year, spending time exploring institutional resources, cultivating ongoing research, establishing new research directions, and connecting with new colleagues and future collaborators before starting as Tenure Track Assistant Professor in July 2025. I’m feeling supported in this enthusiastically interdisciplinary environment. I found it useful to create…
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Co-chairing special session at ICSA 2025
Prof. Demi Fang will be co-chairing a special session at International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA) 2025 at the University of Antwerp in July 2025. The special session is titled “The Next Generation of Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies” and is co-chaired with colleagues Dr. Jonathan Broyles and Martín Torres. See you there!
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“Is Ise Circular?” Symposium at Princeton University School of Architecture
Prof. Demi Fang was invited to chair a roundtable at the “Is Ise Circular?” symposium at Princeton University’s School of Architecture, organized by Prof. Guy Nordenson (Princeton University.) The roundtable was titled “Craft, Tools, and Transmission” and guests Prof. Sigrid Adriaenssens (Princeton University) and carpenter Adam Zgola (calling in from Gunma, Japan) were invited to…
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IASS 2024 at ETH Zürich
Prof. Demi Fang presented a paper titled “Trans-typology design space exploration: Using gradients to inform decision-making in the design of spanning structures” at the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) conference, held at ETH Zürich in 2024. The conference was full of exciting ideas and wonderful community, including outstanding and memorable keynotes. It…
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SEI “Towards Zero Carbon” Workshop at Northeastern University
Led by Prof. Jerry Hajjar, outgoing president of the Structural Engineering Institute and Department Chair at Northeastern University CEE, the workshop “Towards Zero Carbon: Developing a Roadmap for the Structural Engineering Profession and the Structural Engineering Institute, ASCE” took place at Northeastern University, bringing together practitioners and academics to envision the path to a net…
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