Chemist will receive $250,000 scientific prize for organic materials research
Northwestern University organic chemist William Dichtel has been named the National Laureate in Chemistry by the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New
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The study, “Stable Ca and Sr isotopes support volcanically triggered biocalcification crisis during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a” was published in the journal Geology on Dec. 16.
Jiuyuan Wang, is Ph.D. candidate and the first author of the study. Professors …
Sociology Professor Charles Camic’s new book, Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, is a new biography on Thorstein Veblen who was one of America’s most important economic thinkers of modern capitalist society.
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Catherine Woolley, the William Deering Professor of Neurobiology, discusses how sex differences in the brain are misunderstood on the Cerebrum Podcast and in the The Dana Foundation’s Winter 2021 cover story in Cerebrum Magazine.
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Jackson was appointed poet laureate for the state of Illinois in November by Governor J.B. Pritzker. An award-winning poet, novelist and playwright who grew up on Chicago’s South Side and graduated from Northwestern in 1977, Jackson will work to promote …
Professor Thomas O’Halloran has been named fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI fellow status is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.
O’Halloran is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the departments …
The Global Lunchbox Podcast, produced by the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies, presents conversations with scholars in the social sciences and humanities about their current research on a range of critical global issues.
In this …
The Global Lunchbox Podcast, produced by the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies, presents conversations with scholars in the social sciences and humanities about their current research on a range of critical global issues.
In this …
Wendy Wall, professor in the Department of English, has been awarded the Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship for her work, The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making.
Wall is no stranger to awards. She …
Political Science Professor James Druckman co-leads research into the impact of COVID-19 conducted by a university consortium. The consortium includes Northwestern, Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers.
The consortium released a new survey that showed that colder weather driving Illinoisans indoors and …