Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor of Classics Nick Winters to the Department of Classics! Winters recently answered a few questions about his research and what inspired him to pursue his area of study.
Where are you from? Where did …
Will leverage experience as a scholar of inequality to help develop a vision for enhanced engagement with first-generation and lower-income students at Northwestern
Northwestern Provost Kathleen Hagerty has appointed Mesmin Destin, an associate professor in the School of Education and …
Professor and Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program, Gerry Cadava and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss the meaning of diversity in the United States through the lens of Latino identity, as our nation approaches its 250th anniversary.
Even as the world slowly begins to decarbonize industrial processes, achieving lower concentrations of atmospheric carbon requires technologies that remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — rather than just prevent the creation of it.
Typical carbon capture catches CO2 …
Intense flashes of light, not mass, resolve the puzzle of impossible brightness
When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and …
Warming led to an intensified methane cycle, lasting thousands of years, study finds
By studying fossils from ancient aquatic plants, Northwestern University and University of Wyoming (UW) researchers are gaining a better understanding of how methane produced in Arctic lakes …
Project receives ARPA-H contract worth $45 million over five-and-a-half years
A multi-institutional team of researchers, including Northwestern University scientists, has received $45 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fast-track the development of a first-of-its-kind implant …
Chicago’s West Side is air pollution hotspot
The western edge of Chicago — including the North and South Lawndale, East Garfield Park, Archer Heights and Brighton Park neighborhoods — experiences up to 32% higher concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2…
New finding might explain why quasars flare and fade so quickly
A new Northwestern University-led study is changing the way astrophysicists understand the eating habits of supermassive black holes.
While previous researchers have hypothesized that black holes eat slowly, new …
Dayna Patterson was selected as a 2023 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Fellow and is the first postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University to receive this prestigious fellowship. The HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program provides each fellow …