Northwestern University’s Center for Economic History in the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences has received a $2.5 million grant from the Menard family.
The grant will fund a faculty position for an economic historian, who …
Northwestern junior Abigail Roston has been given the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a $30,000 award that supports graduate education for outstanding students dedicated to public service. Roston has a passion for criminal justice reform and hopes to remake the …
Mónica Russel y Rodríguez, Assistant Provost in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, offered insight in a recent article in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
The article discusses the rise in social activism on campuses across the …
An interdisciplinary research team led by anthropology Professor Thomas McDade of Northwestern University launched a sizeable community-based study in June 2020 called SCAN: Screening for Coronavirus Antibodies in Neighborhoods. The research team included experts in community-based surveys, population and …
Chad Mirkin, George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, was presented the G.M. Kosolapoff Award for outstanding scientific achievement for his work on vaccine design and his other advances in the science industry. The award is presented …
Gerald Gabrielse, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, writes his thoughts and perspectives on being a Christian and a physicist in his essay from Northwestern Magazine‘s “Voices.”
Professor Gabrielse’s essay explains how his …
The study, “Structural basis of long-range to short-range synaptic transition in NHEJ,” was published in the journal Nature on April 14, 2021. This research reveals new insight into how proteins work naturally to identify and resolve DNA double-strand …
Anna Maree Parkinson, professor in the Department of German, has been awarded a Kaplan Center for the Humanities Fellowship for 2021-2022.
The Kaplan Center for the Humanities Fellowship, a part of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the …
Professor kihana miraya ross, of the Department of African American Studies, has been awarded the Spencer Foundation Large Grant for her research project, “Wrestling with reparations: A historical and ethnographic study of a Black community’s struggle for educational …
Parker Levinson, Class of 2018, has lately spent her time somewhere much colder than Evanston: the continent of Antarctica. A graduate of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Levinson has a degree in environmental science as well as African studies. …