Pre-med student looks to better understand women’s healthcare in the U.S. and how to make it better
Shae Murphy, a third-year student in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Obama-Chesky Scholarship …
Three-time Emmy and Grammy Award-winning broadcaster Rachel Maddow paid a visit to Northwestern’s history department Oct. 19.
At the invitation of associate professor Kathleen Belew, Maddow spent two hours with faculty and graduate students exchanging questions and ideas about ways …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor of Instruction Abbe Walker to the Department of Classics!
Where are you from? Where did you study?
I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and went to high school across the street from Universal Studios! I …
Weinberg College welcomes Associate Professor James Bielo to the Department of Religious Studies!
Where are you from? Where did you study?
I grew up by the Corrotoman River, in a rural county on Virginia’s east coast. I earned my BA …
New artificial intelligence tool removes humans from entire search, discovery process
A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has successfully detected, identified and classified its first supernova.
Developed by an international collaboration led by Northwestern University, …
Award honors the nation’s most innovative, early-career scientists
Northwestern University chemist and engineer Dayne F. Swearer has received a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant …
In his new novel, creative writing professor Juan Martinez gets at “frightening corners of our lived experience and our messy interior lives”
Years after leaving Las Vegas in 2011, creative writing professor Juan Martinez couldn’t shake off disturbing visions of …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor of Classics Nick Winters to the Department of Classics! Winters recently answered a few questions about his research and what inspired him to pursue his area of study.
Where are you from? Where did …
Will leverage experience as a scholar of inequality to help develop a vision for enhanced engagement with first-generation and lower-income students at Northwestern
Northwestern Provost Kathleen Hagerty has appointed Mesmin Destin, an associate professor in the School of Education and …
Professor and Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program, Gerry Cadava and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss the meaning of diversity in the United States through the lens of Latino identity, as our nation approaches its 250th anniversary.