Laura Larocca is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and was recently named a Presidential Fellow, the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students by Northwestern University.
Larocca received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement …
For many, receiving the Fulbright Fellowship is a chance to travel the world, be immersed in a new culture, and advance in a specified field. During a global pandemic, however, the path for Fulbrighters remained uncertain.
Lois Biggs ’20 found …
Jayson Maurice Porter, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, was recently published in the Washington Post’s Made By History section.
Porter’s perspective piece, “The problem of environmental racism in Mexico today is rooted in history,…
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day English professor Natasha Trethewey, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2007, introduced a special collaborative remix of the seminal poem “For My People,” a civil rights anthem…
Heather ’92 and Felix Baker believe that the intellectual challenge of doing academic research at the Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences can be transformative for undergraduate students.
Research has played a pivotal role in both of their …
The study, “Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds” was published on Dec. 21 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Northwestern’s Howard Chen, the study’s first author, and Professor Daniel Horton, the study’s senior author, discuss …
The study, “Stable Ca and Sr isotopes support volcanically triggered biocalcification crisis during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a” was published in the journal Geology on Dec. 16.
Jiuyuan Wang, is Ph.D. candidate and the first author of the study. Professors …
Jackson was appointed poet laureate for the state of Illinois in November by Governor J.B. Pritzker. An award-winning poet, novelist and playwright who grew up on Chicago’s South Side and graduated from Northwestern in 1977, Jackson will work to promote …
Mayda Velasco, (PhD, Northwestern University, 1995), professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the international COFI Institute, has been elected to serve on the Governing Board of the University of Puerto Rico by the …
A Northwestern University-led team researching calcium-rich supernovas have created history. For the first time, researchers were able to examine a calcium-rich supernova with X-ray imaging. This provided a glimpse into the star during the last month of its life and …