Mathematician Ananth Shankar has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members.
Shankar’s research is in number theory and arithmetic geometry, focusing mainly on …
Professor Susie Phillips and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss why teaching matters, how asking bold questions can open entire worlds of “speculative possibility” in scholarship, and the power of gossip.
Susie Phillips is the Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professor of English …
The most common conversational approaches taken by parents differed by race
A new study led by psychology researchers at Northwestern University found 84% of Black parents and 76% of white parents had spoken to their 8– to 11-year-old-children about the …
Professor Laura Brueck of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences will be honored with Northwestern’s 2024 Provost Award for Exemplary Service.
Given annually by the Office of the Provost, the award recognizes full-time faculty members who provide outstanding …
Northwestern astrophysicist is member of international team working on new detector
Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 — have been directly detected here on Earth since September 2015. Now an …
Marcelo Vinces has received the 2024 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity.
Given annually by Northwestern’s Office of the Provost, the award celebrates individuals or groups who work collectively to build a more diverse, inclusive, …
Jennifer Lackey has received the 2024 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity.
Given annually by Northwestern’s Office of the Provost, the award celebrates individuals or groups who work collectively to build a more diverse, inclusive, …
Mark Alznauer received the best article award from the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His article was titled “Untrue Concepts in Hegel’s Logic” and published in the January 2023 issue. Alznauer is associate professor in the department of philosophy.…
Teri W. Odom, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, is the recipient of the 2024 SPIE Mozi Award for “significant contributions to the field of nanophotonics and …
Battling Alzheimer’s disease has become William Klein’s life work – even if he never saw it coming.
A progressive disease impacting memory, thinking, behavior, and other mental functions, Alzheimer’s affects an estimated 6.7 million Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, …