Junta Nakai knows exactly how he got here.
Here, is his position as the global vice president at Databricks, a San Francisco-based data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) company. The globe’s sixth-largest startup, Databricks, was recently valued at …
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Northwestern’s Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies was tapped to program a series of nine CityTalk conversations designed to explore the themes of history, identity and survival in Joshua Harmon’s 2022 award-winning play “Prayer for the French Republic.”
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A Northwestern University-led international team of scientists has, for the first time, directly observed catalysis in-action at the atomic level.
In mesmerizing new videos, single atoms move and shake during a chemical reaction that removes hydrogen atoms from an alcohol
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JK Anowe, a graduate student in the English department at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Devika Ranjan, a Ph.D. candidate in performance studies at the School of Communication, have each been awarded a 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros
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Experimental drug NU-9 — a small molecule compound approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical trials for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — improves neuron health in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease, according to
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Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg ’24 has been named a 2025-26 Luce Scholar and will spend the next year in Asia working in reproductive health.
Alvarado-Goldberg is one of a cohort of 16 who will embark on the 13-month experiential fellowship program, which
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Trying to persuade people with different political views can be fatiguing and frustrating, but it’s not as pointless as we might think. New research shows that even on divisive issues, far more persuasion attempts succeeded than backfired.
A new study
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Life is a highway, but what are the emissions along it? It turns out, that answer could change depending on which dataset one uses.
A new study led by Victoria Lang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth, …
Guided by the lived experiences of community partners, Northwestern University scientists have simulated the effects of zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) adoption on future air quality for the greater Chicago area.
The results were published today in the journal Frontiers of Earth …