Science & Technology

Last week, a team of Northwestern researchers assisted in recording the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. The discovery was part of an international effort to document an explosion nearly 2.4 billion light years away from Earth. The team of astrophysicists believes...

Professor Chad Mirkin received the 2022 Faraday Medal from The United Kingdom Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). According to the IET’s official statement, Mirkin was honored “for inventing and developing many of the tools, techniques, and materials that have...

Anna Grassellino, a senior scientist at Fermilab and adjunct professor of physics and astronomy in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences was recently awarded the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. According to Fermilab, the...

Bryna Kra, the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University, was named a 2023 Association for Women in Mathematics Fellow "For her vision and work creating programs to support women in mathematics, especially GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities for...

Caroline Kent, Assistant Professor in Weinberg College's Department of Art, Theory, and Practice, was recently awarded The Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize by The Studio Museum in Harlem. According to The Studio Museum in Harlem, “The Wein Prize recognizes and honors...

Adilson Motter, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was awarded the Senior Scientific Award from the Complex Systems Society (CSS). Since 2004, CSS has worked to advance complex systems research pure and applied, advise scientists...

Over the last two decades, award-winning journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert has traveled the globe, peppered top scientists with thoughtful questions and scrutinized research and media reports in one enterprising, unrelenting quest: to get to the heart of the debate...