On September 26, Department of History Professor Kate Masur and history doctoral students participated in The Confederate Mound protest at Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery. The protest was part of “Civil War History: A Call to Action,” a nationwide, group demonstration …
Several members of the anthropology department and the program in global health studies, past and present, have contributed to a special issue of the American Journal of Human Biology on the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes 14 commentaries by leading scholars …
Matthias Doepke, professor in the Department of Economics, was elected as a 2020 Fellow for the Econometric Society.
The Econometric Society devotes itself to the advancement of economics through the use of mathematical and statistical methods. The …
Dr. Kasey Evans is the director of graduate studies (DGS) as well as a professor for the Department of English. She offers courses on the English literary canon 1400–1800; the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser; race and racism …
Alessandro Pavan, professor in the Department of Economics, was elected as a 2020 Fellow for the Econometric Society.
The Econometric Society devotes itself to the advancement of economics through the use of mathematical and statistical methods. The …
Brian Odom, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been elected a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society for his research on novel optical control and cooing of quantum states of trapped molecular ions that …
Dr. Adilson Motter, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been elected a 2020 Fellow of the Network Science Society.
The Network Science Society acts as a truly interdisciplinary …
Seventeen Northwestern faculty members including faculty from the department of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences will be part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS) . This center, …
According to Northwestern University research, how an object is named directly relates to the likelihood a 12-month-old infant will remember its name.
Researchers named four distinct objects differently among groups of infants, aged 12 months, to test for future object …
Through a continuous national survey about Americans’ attitudes towards Covid-19, 69% of citizens say they are not confident in school districts to reopen safely in the midst of the pandemic, with only 10% saying returning to school is “very safe.” …