The study “Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Housing and Mortgage Lending Markets: A Quantitative Review of Trends, 1976-2016” examined how discrimination in housing and mortgage lending against blacks, Latinos and Asians has changed over the last 40 years by performing …
A recent gift to Northwestern will create a new endowed chair in the Department of Mathematics — the Madan Lal Puri Professorship.
The chair will be named for Madan Lal Puri, the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished …
Weinberg College neurobiologist Catherine Woolley has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine – an honor that Woolley says is a credit to the importance of fundamental research.
Woolley, one of four Northwestern faculty members elected to the academy …
Sociology Professor Lincoln Quillian conducted a study on racial discrimination of labor markets in various countries. In the nine countries Quillian and his colleagues examined, they found evidence of hiring discrimination against non-white populations. The study, published in the journal …
Professor Onnie Rogers of the Department of Psychology is the author of a study that analyzed the ways children’s gender narratives reinforce or disrupt gender inequality. “I’m Kind of a Feminist”: Using Master Narratives to Analyze Gender Identity in Middle …
Sherwin K. Bryant, professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History, discusses his research on the Black Pacific and Afro-Andes in an interview for the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives.
In the interview, …
Amy Rosenzweig, the Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biosciences and of Chemistry, has been elected to National Academy of Sciences.
Rosenzweig is a leader in the fields of bioinorganic chemistry and …
The new center, funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, will develop new scholarship, projects and programming
Northwestern University has received a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the establishment of a …
Kelly Wisecup brings rich stories of the nation’s past to life, challenging what we thought we knew about the likes of Pocahontas, early American medicine, Native American culture and more to share tales rooted in truth rather than convenience.
Fresh …
Jeffrey Ely’s research is an eclectic mix.
Over the years, Ely, the Charles E. and Emma Morrison Professor of Economics, has applied game theory to a broad array of topics ranging from mechanism design to torture to, more recently, a …