Todd Gingrich has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members.Gingrich is an assistant professor of chemistry in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and …
Northwestern’s Ben Antieau is a Principal Investigator on a major new $8 million Simons Collaboration on Perfection in Algebra, Geometry and Topology. This is a collaboration across multiple institutions, with Northwestern’s portion of the grant being $650,000. Antieau is …
A new study has proposed a solution for combating jet lag, especially among older adults. The research suggests that eating a substantial breakfast in line with the destination’s time zone can help with jet lag recovery. The study also …
New institute will be an international hub focused on fundamental questions
Northwestern University has been awarded $50 million over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Simons Foundation to establish the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics …
Cross-field expert to help further Northwestern sustainability research
Northwestern University has named Ted Sargent co-executive director of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy (formerly ISEN). Effective immediately, Sargent joins current executive director Michael Wasielewski, the Clare …
New study examines air quality, health implications at equity-relevant geographic scales
If the region surrounding Chicago — North America’s largest freight hub — shifted just 30% of its current on-road heavy-duty vehicles to electric versions, it would substantially reduce pollution …
Last year, Northwestern University researchers reported new observational evidence that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can result from the merger of a neutron star with another compact object (either
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Polyurethane plastics are ubiquitous, used everywhere from mattresses to shoes. But once these products are no longer wanted, these materials litter landfills and oceans across the world.
Now, a group of researchers at Northwestern University has developed a new recycling …
Over the past decade, much of the U.S. healthcare industry has begun omitting race when predicting and diagnosing disease, thought of as a way of reducing health disparities and curbing systemic racism in healthcare.
But should a patient’s race be …
Yuchen Liu has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. “K-stability and moduli spaces of higher dimensional varieties” will bring exciting research and training …