A recent study published by The Lancet Planetary Health outlined a global view of the experience of water insecurity. According to the study, researchers estimate that 436 million of the 3 billion adults represented in a survey sample were water …
Weinberg College welcomes Associate Professor of Instruction Julia Oliver Rajan to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese!
Rajan recently answered a few questions about her current research and what inspired her to pursue linguistics. In addition to teaching, Rajan is …
As extremist rhetoric and violence in America increases, journalists have continually turned to Kathleen Belew, an Associate Professor of history at Northwestern, who has studied and written extensively on this threat to democracy.
She spent ten years researching and …
A new permanent exhibition in Chicago’s Field Museum features the history of the state’s Native Americans and reminds visitors they walk on Native land, the traditional homeland of Chicago’s original inhabitants.
The exhibition, titled “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories,” …
Neuroscientists from Northwestern University and clinicians from the University of Chicago Epilepsy Center recently published a study that explored the relationship between memory and sleep.
Researchers studied brain electrical activity in five of the center’s patients in response to …
Congratulations to the 2021-2022 Faculty and Administrator Honorees at Weinberg College. The Associated Student Government (ASG) collects nominations for the annual Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll from the Northwestern University undergraduate student body. In the past year, over 100 …
Israel is one of the world’s most forward-looking countries when it comes to water management, which is why 16 Northwestern students toured the country in September to learn how it has coped with a hotter, dryer world, and to glean …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor Peter van Elswyk to the Department of Philosophy! Professor van Elswyk recently answered a few questions about his current research and what inspired him to study philosophy.
Where are you from? Where did you study?…
Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2022. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the …
Northwestern researchers recently discovered that colloidal crystals, three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles, can revert to their original structure after breaking apart.
In the study, scientists dehydrated the strands of DNA, causing them to crumple, but quickly regained their previous shape when …