The new center, funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, will develop new scholarship, projects and programming
Northwestern University has received a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the establishment of a …
Kelly Wisecup brings rich stories of the nation’s past to life, challenging what we thought we knew about the likes of Pocahontas, early American medicine, Native American culture and more to share tales rooted in truth rather than convenience.
Fresh …
Jeffrey Ely’s research is an eclectic mix.
Over the years, Ely, the Charles E. and Emma Morrison Professor of Economics, has applied game theory to a broad array of topics ranging from mechanism design to torture to, more recently, a …
The wins keep coming for Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy.
Since arriving at Northwestern in 2014, Kozorovitskiy, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology, has collected several notable honors and grants, a run that includes her recent recognition as a 2016 …
Adrian Randolph, dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, announces a cluster of new faculty hires as part of the recently launched Indigenous Studies Research Initiative. Three new colleagues in this area will join Weinberg College in …
Mary Pattillo’s groundbreaking scholarship on the black middle class has made her a celebrated thought leader in her field.
Two of her books, Black Picket Fences (2nd ed. 2013) and Black on the Block (2007), are seminal explorations of race …
Adrian Randolph, dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has announced the creation of the Indigenous Studies Research Initiative. The full text of the announcement follows.
As a positive and forward-looking response to the recommendations that emerged from …
The study, “Sex Differences in Molecular Signaling at Inhibitory Synapses in the Hippocampus,” was published in The Journal of Neuroscience on August 12, 2015. Catherine Woolley, the William Deering Professor of Neurobiology, is senior author of the study.
Many …
Burgess S. Davis ’03, Vice President of Global Sustainable Plastics at PepsiCo, discusses how she creates and implements ideas to prevent climate change and maintain sustainability in the materials they use for their products worldwide. Davis credits Northwestern and her …