Professor Ben Antieau, of the Department of Mathematics, has been named a 2022 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society for his contributions to K-theory, algebraic geometry, and homotopy theory.
According to the American Mathematical Society’s website, the Fellows program …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Zhang to the Department of Chemistry! He describes his current research and what he finds most fulfilling about teaching.
Where are you from? Where did you study?
I grew up in Shenyang, China. I …
Professor Andrew Papachristos, of the Department of Sociology, explores how street outreach has helped stem gun violence in a new guest essay for the Chicago Tribune.
Papachristos explains how 250 unarmed people walk the streets of Chicago each day …
Delegates from Northwestern, including two from Weinberg College, will be at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow over the next two weeks. The faculty and student participants will join nearly 200 world leaders …
The ASAP Collaborative Research Network, a program of the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative being implemented through The Michael J. Fox Foundation, has awarded $8.9 million for the three-year study, “Redefining Parkinson’s disease pathophysiology mechanisms in the context of …
Increasingly, developments in science, technology, medicine, and the environment have global implications. Northwestern University’s Science in Human Culture (SHC) Program addresses these issues and fosters meaningful conversations at the intersection of the humanities and sciences.
Starting this Fall, SHC will …
In History Professor Kevin Boyle‘s new book, “The Shattering: America in the 1960s,” he lays out historical events that pierced the stability of the status quo, and set the stage for three key struggles the U.S. still grapples with …
Weinberg College community members recently were in the media, sharing their expertise. View the articles below.
Long before movies and screens, Chicago went nuts for something called cycloramas
Chicago Tribune 10/19
The Chicago History Museum cyclorama is a small stunner …
Weinberg College welcomes 38 new faculty members.
The new faculty include:
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Northwestern University Chemists Sir Fraser Stoddart and Omar Farha have made a breakthrough in surface science by introducing a new active mechanism of adsorption. Such adsorption-based phenomena, in which molecules are attracted onto a solid surface, are essential for today’s …