Most people have heard the famous phrase “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Now, Northwestern University researchers have used statistical physics to confirm the theory that underlies this famous axiom. The study was published May 3 in the journal Science...
"Reaching Your Dream" series tells stories of Northwestern alums who found their dream careers thanks to Chicago Field Studies (CFS), an academic internship program that matches over 500 students every year with over 250 employer partners. CFS participants receive guidance...
A new catalyst made from an inexpensive, abundant metal and common table sugar has the power to destroy carbon dioxide (CO2) gas. In a new Northwestern University study, the catalyst successfully converted CO2 into carbon monoxide (CO), an important building block to...
Cynthia Nazarian, associate professor in the department of French and Italian, has been honored with the University Teaching Award. Nazarian will receive the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. As a specialist of Renaissance literature, Nazarian regularly teaches the period...
This May, Northwestern's Earth and Planetary Sciences department is hosting a workshop titled "Volcano & Rift Seismicity in the Northern Branches of The East African Rift System." The workshop, designed explicitly for early-career seismologists from different countries along the East-African...
Todd Gingrich was awarded a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Gingrich is assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Northwestern University. The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation award recipients are faculty who, within the first five years of their academic...
Discrepancy between maps and shaking data is in conversion between them Hazard maps predicting future earthquake shaking are important in the design of earthquake-resistant buildings. Seismologists have been making these maps for about 50 years, but little is known how well...
Chemist Mercouri Kanatzidis and mathematician Aaron Naber, faculty members in Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors given to a scientist in...
Two Weinberg College faculty members from Northwestern University have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Bruce Carruthers and Suzan van der Lee are among the 250...
Neil Kelleher has been honored with the 2024 Christian B. Anfinsen Award from the Protein Society. The Anfinsen award recognizes technological achievement or significant methodological advances in the field of protein science. and in Neil's case, specifically his seminal contributions to...
