Northwestern University astrophysicist Allison Strom has received a 2024 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue innovative and experimental research.
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Rachel Jamison Webster‘s book Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family (Henry Holt, March 2023)—a book of creative nonfiction that explores ancestry, race, gender, and justice in American history – was chosen as a Best Book …
Biodegradable structures could revolutionize energy, information technologies and advanced medicine
Step aside hard, rigid materials. There is a new soft, sustainable electroactive material in town — and it’s poised to open new possibilities for medical devices, wearable technology and human-computer …
68th U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver the 35th Annual Leopold Lecture presenting his talk, “Geopolitics and Global Business: Navigating the Future.” The lecture will be held on Tuesday, October 22, from 5 – 6 pm at Cahn …
SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution.
A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received a $20 million grant to develop and apply new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to astrophysics research and deep space …
Meet Russell Kahn, who graduated from Northwestern University in 2016.
What inspired you to pursue study in the American Studies Program?
During the Spring of my Freshman year at Northwestern I begged Professor Sarah McFarland Taylor to let me into …
Throughout its 50 years, Northwestern University’s American Studies Program has been a lively example of interdisciplinary study, intellectual curiosity, and scholarly camaraderie.
Carl Smith would love to cite some grand, elaborate plan behind the formation of Northwestern University’s American Studies …
Please welcome the 29 new faculty of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year of 2024-2025!…
A new study finds more than half of adults surveyed worldwide expect to be seriously harmed by their water within the next two years. Led by global health …
With Chicago and much of the Midwest facing what may be the hottest days of the summer this week, many are cranking up the …