Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, of the Department of Neurobiology, is the recipient of the 2021 One Mind Nick LeDeit Rising Star Research Award. One Mind is a mental health nonprofit that conducts brain research and aims to transform mental illness …
Explore the latest books published by faculty members in Northwestern’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.
Here are their latest works to add to your reading list:
Professor Mary Weismantel, of …
Professor Sandra Waxman, of the Department of Psychology, found that sign language, like spoken language, supports infant cognitive development.
In a groundbreaking new study to be published in October, Waxman and a team of researchers discovered that sign language …
India is currently home to more than 1.3 billion people, but a cultural preference for sons has meant the population has disproportionately more men than women. As a result, India lags behind many countries around issues of gender equality, and …
After more than 800 homicides in 2020, gun violence levels in Chicago remain elevated. As part of the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) annual conference, Professor Andrew Papachristos appeared on a panel with distinguished sociologists, violence interrupters, and public officials to …
Professor Thomas McDade, of the Department of Anthropology, found that two months after the second Pfizer/Moderna vaccination, antibody response decreases by 20% in adults with prior cases of COVID-19.
McDade and a team of biological anthropologists tested blood samples from …
The Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Career Summit will be held on Monday, September 20, 2021, from 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. CT. The Career Summit — which will be virtual — offers students an opportunity to learn how to communicate their …
Two Weinberg College alumni have been awarded the American Council of Learned Societies’ Emerging Voices Fellowship. The fellowship was created in response to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it aims to support early-career scholars who will …
The LSST Corporation, a non-profit consortium of around 30 research institutions, has received $7 million to establish a brand new fellowship around data from the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. The fellowship is called the LSSTC Catalyst Fellowship, and it …
Professor Elizabeth Tipton, of the Department of Statistics, joined researchers to discuss classroom culture in the Growth Mindset Workshop, hosted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Yidan Prize Foundation.
A growth mindset is a …