Professor Mesmin Destin will present at this year’s TEDxChicago, an independently organized TED event that promotes “ideas worth spreading.” Professors Michael Jewett and Manijeh Razeghi of the McCormick School of Engineering are also presenters.
Organized around the theme “Showtime: Chi-Time,” …
A recent study found that a staggering amount of violence intervention workers in Chicago have been exposed to or victims of gun violence while at work.
The study was co-led by Professor Andrew Papachristos along with faculty from the University …
Mike Wasielewski, the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, has been awarded with the 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Faraday Lectureship Prize. He is being recognized “for contributions toward understanding electron spin dynamics in …
Alessia Ricciardi, the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature, has been awarded the 2021 American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize in the category of Literary Studies for Finding Ferrante: Authorship and the Politics of World …
Professor Katherine Freeman, the 2020 Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences recipient, is participating in the spring Seminar series presented by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Freeman holds the Evan Pugh University Professorship at Penn State University, and …
A recent study found that exposure of female roundworms to male pheromones slowed down the aging of the females’ egg cells, resulting in healthier offspring. The pheromones also reduced chromosomal abnormalities and produced visibly younger egg cells, as opposed to …
Professor Samuel Stupp, of the Department of Chemistry, was elected to the Latin American Academy of Sciences (ACAL).
The mission of the ACAL is to “promote and contribute to the development of mathematical, physical, chemical, life, and earth …
A recent poll conducted by the COVID States Project found a significant disparity among information sources between parents with and without vaccinated children.
The survey included two distinct question types (list selection and open-ended questions) and was distributed around the …
Northwestern alum Judith Olson ’65 will receive an honorary Doctor of Science from Northwestern University during this year’s commencement on June 13.
Olson, the Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences Emerita in the department of informatics at the …
It’s an especially golden anniversary for Northwestern University’s Department of African American Studies.
Celebrating its 50th year in 2022, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences-housed department has grown into one of the nation’s premier academic homes for the study …