This May, Northwestern’s Earth and Planetary Sciences department is hosting a workshop titled “Volcano & Rift Seismicity in the Northern Branches of The East African Rift System.” The workshop, designed explicitly for early-career seismologists from different countries along the East-African …
Todd Gingrich was awarded a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Gingrich is assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Northwestern University.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation award recipients are faculty who, within the first five years of …
Discrepancy between maps and shaking data is in conversion between them
Hazard maps predicting future earthquake shaking are important in the design of earthquake-resistant buildings. Seismologists have been making these maps for about 50 years, but little is known how …
Chemist Mercouri Kanatzidis and mathematician Aaron Naber, faculty members in Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors
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Two Weinberg College faculty members from Northwestern University have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
Bruce Carruthers and Suzan van der Lee are among the …
Neil Kelleher has been honored with the 2024 Christian B. Anfinsen Award from the Protein Society.
The Anfinsen award recognizes technological achievement or significant methodological advances in the field of protein science. and in Neil’s case, specifically his seminal …
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Ask Nikki Okrah ’11 about her five-year-old entrepreneurial venture, Chaku Foods, and her response avoids the typical business lingo trumpeting point of differentiation and margins.
Instead, Okrah begins speaking about a mother named Helina in Ghana, a West African nation …
Northwestern University professor Ann Bradlow has been selected as 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.
The 2023 class of AAAS Fellows includes 502 scientists, engineers and …
One of 30 students nationwide to be honored for potential to make significant contributions to U.S. society or culture
Minjung Kim, a graduate student in the department of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded …