Professor Daniel Immerwahr recently published an op-ed in The Guardian which outlines correlations between historical political conflict and physical geography.
In the article, Immerwahr describes how much of the world’s political history has been the direct result of physical geography. …
Weinberg College welcomes Professor Sarah Schulman to the Department of English!
Schulman recently gave insight into her academic background and why she chose to teach at Northwestern. In addition to teaching, Schulman has published 21 books, four audiobooks, and two …
Historian Geraldo Cadava recently published an op-ed about the different political leanings of Latino voters and their effects on the current landscape.
In the article, Cadava discusses the power of narratives about Latino citizens — chief among them being that …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor of Instruction Michal J. Wilczewski of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature!
Wilczewski recently gave some insight into his background and why he chose to teach at Northwestern.
Where are you from? Where did …
Northwestern researchers Vicky Kalogera, Wen-Fai Fong, and Charlie Kilpatrick were recently chosen as finalists to be part of a NASA-led team that will launch a research facility into space in 2028.
The winning team will pilot a groundbreaking …
Eugene Lowe, Jr., who has served as assistant to the president for more than two decades, announced Monday he will step down from his role at the University at the end of Fall Quarter.
Lowe joined Northwestern in 1995 as …
Shannon Millikin, Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has created an eTandem language learning exchange between Northwestern students taking Intermediate Spanish 121, and students and English learners at universities abroad.
Millikin coordinates and teaches …
Greta Thunberg, David Hogg, and Malala Yousafzai, all teenagers when their activism caught the world’s attention, are proof that leadership develops well before adulthood.
As essential as they are, and as complex the challenges they face as tomorrow’s leaders, scientists …
Professor Joseph T. Hupp recently received the Allen J. Bard Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). According to the ECS website, the recipient is recognized for “paradigm-shifting contributions in the fields of electrochemical science and recognized for exceptionally creative experimental …
Northwestern University astrophysicist Farhad Zadeh has been fascinated and puzzled by a family of large-scale, highly organized magnetic filaments dangling in the center of the Milky Way ever since he first discovered them in the early 1980s.
Now, 40 years …