The study, “Structure of the human Mediator-bound transcription pre-initiation complex,” was published March 11 in the journal Science. This marks the first time the human Mediator complex has been visualized in 3D in the human cell.
Professor Yuan He of …
Yosi Kratish is a postdoctoral trainee in the Department of Chemistry, as well as a member of the Tobin Marks Group. Kratish was awarded the 2020-2021 McBride Postdoctoral Trainee Award for the positive influence he brought to his …
Tiffany Schmidt, professor of neurobiology, was awarded the 2020–21 Ver Steeg Award from The Graduate School.
Named for Clarence Ver Steeg, PhD, former Northwestern University Professor in History and Dean of The Graduate School from 1975 to 1986, …
Professor Robert Launay discusses despotism, religion, philosophy, and identification in his analytical work Savages, Romans and Despots in this episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast. He dives into certain historical belief systems, prominent figures, and important events to examine …
The study “Allomelanin: A Biopolymer of Intrinsic Microporosity” was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on March 5.
Professor Nathan Gianneschi, the Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry, discusses this research in the story “‘Fungal …
The study “The irritant receptor TRPA1 mediates the mosquito repellent effect of catnip” was published in the journal Current Biology on March 4.
Professor Marco Gallio of the Department of Neurobiology discusses this collaborative research from Northwestern University and Lund …
Professor Emeritus Erwin Goldberg of the Department of Molecular Biosciences discusses his research and career development in an interview in the journal Biology of Reproduction (March 2021).
In the interview, Goldberg describes the impetus for going into the field …
History Professor Amy Stanley’s, new book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City (Scribner, 2020) won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Stanely is also the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and a finalist for …
Professor Julia Kalow of the Department of Chemistry is named a 2021 Sloan Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Sloan Research Fellowship is described below on the Sloan Foundation website:
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners
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Professors Xiumin Du and Ilya Khayutin of the Department of Mathematics have been named 2021 Sloan Fellows of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Sloan Research Fellowship is described below on the Sloan Foundation website:
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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