In 1793, Captain William Bligh arrived in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines with cargo filled with several hundred sapling breadfruit trees aboard the HMS Providence. His goal was to introduce the long-lived trees, which produce carbohydrate-rich fruits, as a …
Bryna Kra was recently featured in the Quanta Magazine article “From Systems in Motion, Infinite Patterns Appear.”
“Over the past few years, four mathematicians — Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian Richter and Donald Robertson — have developed Furstenberg’s
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A new Northwestern University program aims to decrease the time to a PhD for research-invested neuroscience undergraduates while simultaneously increasing diversity and strengthening Northwestern’s position in the ever-growing scientific field.
The Vertically Integrated Neuroscience Education Program, or VINE, will …
The world’s best artists can take a few different colored paints and create a masterpiece that looks like nothing else. They do this by drawing upon inspiration, knowledge of past works, and design principles learned through years of experience. Chemists …
The King Faisal Foundation has awarded the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Northwestern University professor Chad A. Mirkin for his work in chemistry. The King Faisal Prize, established in 1979 by the King Faisal Foundation and …
Northwestern University is one of 104 schools that will receive a six-year Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) initiative grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The HHMI announcement notes that IE3 challenges U.S. colleges and universities to build capacity for student …
Northwestern researchers Vicky Kalogera, Wen-Fai Fong, and Charlie Kilpatrick were recently chosen as finalists to be part of a NASA-led team that will launch a research facility into space in 2028.
The winning team will pilot a groundbreaking …
Professor Joseph T. Hupp recently received the Allen J. Bard Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). According to the ECS website, the recipient is recognized for “paradigm-shifting contributions in the fields of electrochemical science and recognized for exceptionally creative experimental …
Northwestern University astrophysicist Farhad Zadeh has been fascinated and puzzled by a family of large-scale, highly organized magnetic filaments dangling in the center of the Milky Way ever since he first discovered them in the early 1980s.
Now, 40 years …
Wil Burns, visiting professor at Weinberg College’s program in Environmental Policy and Culture will be joining the Carbon Dioxide Removal Academy (CDR), a joint project of several US agencies, spearheaded by NASA. According to the North American Carbon Program…