Natasha Trethewey, Weinberg Board of Trustees Professor of English and renowned poet has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in recognition of extraordinary accomplishments in her field.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the …
Professor Tobin Marks has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in recognition of extraordinary accomplishments in his field in the mathematical and physical sciences class.
Marks is the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry in …
Mike Wasielewski, the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, has been awarded with the 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Faraday Lectureship Prize. He is being recognized “for contributions toward understanding electron spin dynamics in …
Alessia Ricciardi, the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature, has been awarded the 2021 American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize in the category of Literary Studies for Finding Ferrante: Authorship and the Politics of World …
One Book One Northwestern has chosen How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with The History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith as the selection for the 2022-2023 One Book. How the World is Passed explores the history of …
Professor Katherine Freeman, the 2020 Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences recipient, is participating in the spring Seminar series presented by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Freeman holds the Evan Pugh University Professorship at Penn State University, and …
A recent study found that exposure of female roundworms to male pheromones slowed down the aging of the females’ egg cells, resulting in healthier offspring. The pheromones also reduced chromosomal abnormalities and produced visibly younger egg cells, as opposed to …
History Professor Daniel Immerwahr, recently wrote a piece in The Guardian on why a complacent attitude about nuclear weapons is dangerous.
In the article, Immerwahr details the history of nuclear weapons and the discussion surrounding their use in the …
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Professor Samuel Stupp, of the Department of Chemistry, was elected to the Latin American Academy of Sciences (ACAL).
The mission of the ACAL is to “promote and contribute to the development of mathematical, physical, chemical, life, and earth …