Xiumin Du has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. Du is assistant professor of mathematics at Northwestern.
The CAREER Award is designed to …
Timothy Earle, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, has been awarded the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor in his field.
According to their website, the Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred …
Northwestern University scientists have teamed up to create an affordable, easy-to-use, and reliable test for determining dangerous levels of fluoride in water. The new biosensor device, which was tested in rural Kenya, demonstrates that water testing for fluoride can be …
In the aftermath of the two major earthquakes and aftershocks that struck Turkey and devastated parts of Syria and the Middle East on February 6th, Northwestern students and alumni with ties to the region are taking action to support those …
Quilting is much more than just a needle and thread. It is an integral part of American history, with individual quilts serving as historical documents that tell a story of the past. Quilting has played a significant role in the …
Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of African American Studies, has been listed as one of Better magazine’s 2023 Top 10 of Chicago’s Black Women of Impact.
The list celebrates women who …
Two faculty in Weinberg College have been awarded Fellowship grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Jennifer Lackey and Dassia Posner.
The awards are part of $28.1 million in grants provided by the NEH for 204 humanities …
Teri W. Odom, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as 2022 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the …
Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and professor of history, has won the Medieval Academy of America’s Haskins Medal for her 2020 book, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy.
The Haskins …
Astrophysicist Jason Wang of Northwestern University has unveiled a new time-lapse video of the HR8799 planetary system. The first extrasolar planetary system to be directly imaged in 2008, HR8799 boasts four Jupiter-sized planets that orbit its star.
“It’s usually difficult …