One year after a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and disrupted electoral vote proceedings, Northwestern historians and political scientists provide analysis on the national climate and ongoing threats to American democracy.
Northwestern Now spoke with professors Alvin Tillery, …
A national poll finds that nearly half (47%) of previously vaccinated respondents are booster hesitant or resistant, showing only a modest change in conviction, even after the World Health Organization recently (WHO) announced the risk posed by the rapidly spreading …
After studying the impacts of mining cobalt — a common ingredient in lithium-ion batteries — on communities in Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Northwestern University is calling for more data into …
Weinberg College welcomes Associate Professor Walker Hanlon to the department of economics!
Hanlon recently answered a few questions about his current research and what inspired him to pursue economic history. Walker will join the Economic History group at Northwestern as …
The New York Times has named Professor Kate Masur’s book, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. W. Norton, 2021), one of the best books of 2021. The work examines the …
Twenty-five years in the making, the $10 billion telescope is an unprecedented observatory for space exploration. Unlike Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope will work in infrared light, providing astronomers — including Northwestern’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh — with the ability to …
Now that the Human Genome Project has officially finished, an international team of researchers will map the entire collection of proteins in the human body.
Neil Kelleher, the Walter and Mary Glass Professor of Molecular Biosciences and professor of …
A new exhibition will explore the various ways American artists have grappled with anti-Black violence over the past 100 years.
“A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence,” organized and presented by The Mary and Leigh Block …
On World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, experts say scientific innovations in HIV prevention and treatment remain elusive for many in the U.S. and around the world.
Professor Héctor Carrillo, of the department of sociology, discussed health inequality and what …
Bryna Kra has been elected as president of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Kra is the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University. After a year of serving as President-Elect, Kra’s two-year term will begin February 1, …