Faculty

In a pioneering collaboration with AbbVie, Northwestern researchers have discovered a new way to potentially treat cancer by targeting and removing harmful proteins from cells. An emerging approach in medicine and research, called “Targeted Protein Degradation” (TPD), works by using special...

Jorge Coronado, Director of Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Professor of Andean and Latin American Literatures, has been awarded a 2025 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (APS). Founded in 1743, the APS is the oldest learned...

James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science, has published over 100 articles and book chapters spanning topics such as political science, economics, psychology, and much more. In his research, Druckman analyzes how normal people make decisions about political...

New strategy could maintain communications in a constantly changing network While entangled photons hold incredible promise for quantum computing and communications, they have a major inherent disadvantage. After one use, they simply disappear. But in a new study published in Physical Review Letters, Northwestern...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy — an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with much younger galaxies. CHIME telescopes (shown here in featured image)...

Throughout his 50-year career, Charles Manski has had a broad taste in research, publishing work for both academic and mainstream audiences on a wide range of policy topics including financial aid for college students, pandemic response, clinical medicine and climate policy. In his...

Northwestern researchers leverage industrial waste to store energy The batteries used in our phones, devices and even cars rely on metals like lithium and cobalt, sourced through intensive and invasive mining. As more products begin to depend on battery-based energy storage...

Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart, a Board of Trustees Professor at Northwestern University, died Dec. 30. He was 82. Stoddart, a pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and organic chemistry, was an outsized figure on the Evanston campus and on campuses...

New study shows planet formation might be more complicated than previously thought Just as some children physically resemble their parents, many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them. But, in...

Check out a graphic novel mystery, a pop culture deep-dive, poetry and more from Northwestern faculty over the past year It’s the perfect time of year to curl up under a blanket with a warm beverage and a great read. Northwestern...