Neuroscientists from Northwestern University and clinicians from the University of Chicago Epilepsy Center recently published a study that explored the relationship between memory and sleep.
Researchers studied brain electrical activity in five of the center’s patients in response to …
Congratulations to the 2021-2022 Faculty and Administrator Honorees at Weinberg College. The Associated Student Government (ASG) collects nominations for the annual Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll from the Northwestern University undergraduate student body. In the past year, over 100 …
Israel is one of the world’s most forward-looking countries when it comes to water management, which is why 16 Northwestern students toured the country in September to learn how it has coped with a hotter, dryer world, and to glean …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor Peter van Elswyk to the Department of Philosophy! Professor van Elswyk recently answered a few questions about his current research and what inspired him to study philosophy.
Where are you from? Where did you study?…
Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2022. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the …
Northwestern researchers recently discovered that colloidal crystals, three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles, can revert to their original structure after breaking apart.
In the study, scientists dehydrated the strands of DNA, causing them to crumple, but quickly regained their previous shape when …
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 …
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 …
A new study revealed that depolarization initiatives do not affect anti-democratic attitudes. The Strengthening Democracy Project, a team of social scientists from Northwestern and three other universities, surveyed 8,000 partisans who were randomly assigned to interventions designed to reduce affective …
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 …