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Sep14
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lessEnjoy a welcome from Dean Christopher A. Schuh and other McCormick leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free breakfast on the Tech East Plaza will follow.
TIME Monday, September 14, 2026 at 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
LOCATION LR2, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Andi Joppie andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Sep16
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lessThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's annual Faculty Retreat.
TIME Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
LOCATION 1702 Chicago Ave
CONTACT Andrew Liguori andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Sep18
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lessThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's annual Back to School Social Event.
TIME Friday, September 18, 2026 at 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
CONTACT Charles Martell charles.martell1@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Sep22
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lessEnjoy a welcome from Dean Christopher A. Schuh and other McCormick leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free lunch on the Tech East Plaza will follow.
TIME Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
LOCATION Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Andi Joppie andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Sep23
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lessFall 2026 Classes Begin
TIME Wednesday, September 23, 2026
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Oct2
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lessSingle-cell to pore-scale insights into manganese biomineralization for metal recovery
TIME Friday, October 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Logan Hart logan.hart@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Oct3
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lessThe Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering's 2026 Fall Career Fair.
TIME Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
CONTACT Andrew Liguori andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Oct7
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lessFaults that accommodate earthquakes are often embedded in hundreds-meter-thick fractured rocks, i.e., fault damage zones. The San Andreas fault, for example, is surrounded by a 150–200 m wide fault damage zone with 30–40% seismic wave reductions. Because such major faults can host M7 earthquakes that cause strong ground shaking in nearby populated regions, it is essential to understand how earthquakes grow in fault damage zones and whether their source properties and ground motions are strongly modulated by the fractured rocks. My talk will demonstrate how seismic waves in damage zones can profoundly affect how fast earthquakes grow and how quickly slip arrests on the fault in dynamic rupture simulations. I will also discuss the theoretical prediction that earthquakes in damage zones can rupture faster than the shear wave speeds of host rocks. Such supershear rupture can propagate stably at a range of speeds usually considered as unstable and cause large ground motions at long distances.
TIME Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Logan Hart logan.hart@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Oct9
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lessExploring the Metabolic Architecture of Wastewater Comamonas
TIME Friday, October 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Logan Hart logan.hart@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Oct14
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lessPatterns in Porous Media
TIME Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Charles Martell charles.martell1@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Oct16
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lessABSTRACT: Pathogenic viruses are responsible for the majority of infectious disease risk from sewage-contaminated water, yet our current monitoring systems were not designed to detect them. Regulatory frameworks rely on bacterial indicators that poorly predict viral risk, and direct viral detection at health-relevant concentrations remains technically challenging given the extraordinary diversity of human viral pathogens. This talk presents our group's work developing quantitative viral metagenomic approaches and identifying robust novel viral indicators for environmental waters, and discusses how this work connects to wastewater-based epidemiology, showing how the same molecular tools that improve water quality monitoring can enable real-time tracking of community disease dynamics as demonstrated during COVID-19 and beyond. I will close with a perspective on how quantitative viral surveillance will reshape both water safety regulations and proactive public health intervention.
BIO: Kyle Bibby, PhD, PE, BCEE is the Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as Director of the ECI Water Initiative. His research group focuses on molecular tools for environmental pathogen detection, novel fecal indicator development, and wastewater-based epidemiology. His work has been recognized with an NSF CAREER Award, the 2025 AAEES University Research Grand Prize, and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher designation in 2023 and 2025. He currently serves on the WHO roster of experts updating the global drinking water quality guidelines.
TIME Friday, October 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Charles Martell charles.martell1@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Oct16
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lessMolecular Tools for Water Quality and Public Health Surveillance
TIME Friday, October 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Charles Martell charles.martell1@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Oct23
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lessEpigenetics, Biological Aging, and Epidemiology
TIME Friday, October 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Logan Hart logan.hart@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Nov4
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lessOn the Role of Large Language Models and Agents from the Scientific Record to Certified Mechanics and Our Classrooms
TIME Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Logan Hart logan.hart@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Nov6
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lessHow the exposome in infancy influences trajectories of chronic inflammation, aging, and disease
TIME Friday, November 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION A230, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Logan Hart logan.hart@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)