Bryna Kra was recently featured in the Quanta Magazine article "From Systems in Motion, Infinite Patterns Appear." "Over the past few years, four mathematicians — Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian Richter and Donald Robertson — have developed Furstenberg’s techniques to find not just arbitrarily long...
Kelly Wisecup, Professor of English, has been awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for her 2021 book, Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Wisecup is also Interim Director (2022-23) of the Alice Kaplan...
A new Northwestern University program aims to decrease the time to a PhD for research-invested neuroscience undergraduates while simultaneously increasing diversity and strengthening Northwestern’s position in the ever-growing scientific field. The Vertically Integrated Neuroscience Education Program, or VINE, will offer a...
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor of Instruction Irene Finestrat Martinez to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese! Martinez recently answered a few questions about her research and what inspired her to pursue her area of study. Where are you from? Where did...
Ben Frommer will be assisting in the development of two museums abroad: the MEHRIN Moravian Jewish Museum in Brno, and a new Jewish museum in Prague. Frommer was appointed to the International Advisory Board of the project to establish a Moravian...
Weinberg College welcomes Associate Professor of Instruction Shuwen Li to the Cook Family Writing Program! Li recently answered a few questions about his background and what inspired him to pursue his area of study. Where are you from? Where did you study? I’m...
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor of Instruction Elsa Anderson to the Program in Environmental Sciences! Anderson recently gave some insight into her background in environmental science and why she chose to teach urban ecology at Northwestern. Where are you from? Where did you...
Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker, NPR, BookPage, and Booklist. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during...
Historian Jeff Eden’s book, God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War, has been named one of Foreign Affairs’ Best Books of 2022. God Save the USSR explores Muslim life and political policy in a four-year period of...
Quilting has played a significant role in the history of Black American folk art and American folk art as a whole. Tracy L. Vaughn-Manley, Betty Joy Bonds of Chicago, and Melissa Blount of Evanston, known as "sister quilters," have used...
