In a press conference on Oct. 1, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin announced new grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Northwestern University and the University of Chicago for gun violence prevention research. The event was held at the …
Professor Brian Odom, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will receive a Fundamental Physics Innovation Award from the American Physical Society.
These awards have been given out over the last three years and are funded by the Gordon …
Institute for Policy Research graduate Leah Salditch (PhD, 2021) received the Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research from the American Geophysical Union. Salditch earned PhD in earth and planetary sciences and a master’s in applied statistics from Northwestern in …
Since humans first landed on the moon in 1969, scientists have been fixated on the next “giant leap” for space exploration— a successful human mission to Mars.
Plans for Mars missions are well underway, as NASA hopes to send astronauts …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor Dayne Swearer to the Department of Chemistry! Professor Swearer recently spoke about his background and shares how he discovered his passion for research.
Where are you from? Where did you study?
I was born and …
The community is invited to the 32nd Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture, delivered this year by author Dr. Richard Haass who will discuss his new book, The World: A Brief Introduction, at a virtual event on October 18, 2021 …
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management will expand the reach of its real estate program to include Northwestern undergraduate students beginning in fall 2022. In collaboration with Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Kellogg will create new courses and …
Professor Onnie Rogers, of the Department of Psychology, found that teachers tend to complain more about the behavior of Black students compared to white students — even though researchers found no differences in patterns of misbehavior.
This study followed …
Professor Samuel Stupp, of the Department of Chemistry, will receive the 2022 American Chemical Society Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry.
The Hirschmann Award, established in 1988, recognizes outstanding research achievements in the chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics of …
English Professor Reginald Gibbons will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award, the organization’s highest honor, to celebrate his lifetime of achievements.
Gibbons’ prolific writing career has included the publication of ten full-length poetry collections, a short story …