James Druckman the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Institute for Policy Research associate director is part of a university research consortium, which includes Northwestern, Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers, investigating attitudes on COVID-19.
The consortium surveyed about 25,000 …
Sociology Professor Andrew Papachristos, who uses social network science to understand gun crimes, found that violence mostly involved a small fraction – just 6% – of the city’s gang “factions.”
Continue reading about Professor Papachristors findings, in the Chicago Sun-Times…
The study “Mu-Tau Neutrinos: Influencing Fast Flavor Conversions in SupernovaeNorthwestern” conducted by a team of Northwestern researchers was published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Senior author Manibrata Sen, discusses the study in the story, “Three flavors are better than …
The study, “Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds” was published on Dec. 21 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Northwestern’s Howard Chen, the study’s first author, and Professor Daniel Horton, the study’s senior author, discuss …
The study, “Stable Ca and Sr isotopes support volcanically triggered biocalcification crisis during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a” was published in the journal Geology on Dec. 16.
Jiuyuan Wang, is Ph.D. candidate and the first author of the study. Professors …
Sociology Professor Charles Camic’s new book, Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, is a new biography on Thorstein Veblen who was one of America’s most important economic thinkers of modern capitalist society.
From Harvard University Press:…
Catherine Woolley, the William Deering Professor of Neurobiology, discusses how sex differences in the brain are misunderstood on the Cerebrum Podcast and in the The Dana Foundation’s Winter 2021 cover story in Cerebrum Magazine.
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The Global Lunchbox Podcast, produced by the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies, presents conversations with scholars in the social sciences and humanities about their current research on a range of critical global issues.
In this …
Political Science Professor James Druckman co-leads research into the impact of COVID-19 conducted by a university consortium. The consortium includes Northwestern, Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers.
The consortium released a new survey that showed that colder weather driving Illinoisans indoors and …
Helen Tilley, professor of history, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The National Endowment for the Humanities promotes excellence in the humanities and works to spread lessons of history …