Historian Deborah Cohen’s new book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the lead-up to World War II. Cohen is the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at...
A new virtual exhibit details Black political mobilizations in pre-Civil War Illinois, including the crucial contributions of Black women While Black men inhabited the most visible, public-facing positions of Black life in mid- 19th century America, the male ministers, editorial writers,...
In American Politics Research, Northwestern professor and political scientist Jordan Gans-Morse and his co-author conducted a survey that asked if Americans would ever sell their vote. The resulting report comes as many US citizens are concerned about the country’s future,...
Opportunities for women in professional baseball have been growing rapidly among managerial, scouting, or coaching roles. Katie Krall ‘18 has worked in and around professional baseball since leaving the university and has now secured a position as a development coach...
Northwestern professor Chad Mirkin was awarded the 2022 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences for his work with spherical nucleic acids (SNAs). The honor is granted to researchers “who have made significant efforts through scientific research...
In the world of medicine, doctors often need to provide binary answers to patients, even if they do not have all the information necessary to make a decision. Northwestern professor and economist Charles Manski suggests medical professionals use partial identification...
Northwestern Assistant Professor Julia Behrman of the department of sociology led the project on “Collaborative Research: Migration and Fertility” with Abigail Weitzman, faculty at UT Austin, that examines how migration to a different country affects the fertility of African women...
Cultural anthropologist Mary Weismantel's book Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots (2021) was awarded the 2022 ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award for the best book in Latin American Art History. Weismantel is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology...
Researchers at Northwestern have created a new synthetic cement that mimics glue found in underwater mollusks. Their study was published on March 3 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. According to Nathan Gianneschi, the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor...
Sleep and circadian rhythms were once seen as separate disciplines and were not nearly as connected as they are in the world of medicine today. In fact, Northwestern has been at the forefront of this groundbreaking research, according to Weinberg...
