In the world of medicine, doctors often need to provide binary answers to patients, even if they do not have all the information necessary to make a decision. Northwestern professor and economist Charles Manski suggests medical professionals use partial identification …
Researchers at Northwestern have created a new synthetic cement that mimics glue found in underwater mollusks. Their study was published on March 3 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
According to Nathan Gianneschi, the Jacob & Rosaline …
Sleep and circadian rhythms were once seen as separate disciplines and were not nearly as connected as they are in the world of medicine today. In fact, Northwestern has been at the forefront of this groundbreaking research, according to Weinberg …
Federico Burdisso made history both at Northwestern and in Italy when he claimed two Olympic medals in Tokyo last July. Not only is he a Northwestern statistics major in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, but he also medaled …
Northwestern University chemist Teri Odom was elected to the 2022 Class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. She is being recognized for the “development of optical nanoprobes based on anisotropic metal nanoparticles for …
Three Weinberg College faculty members have been awarded a prestigious 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The recipients were economist Piotr Dworczak, astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong, and mathematician Yuchen Liu. They were selected for their …
Northwestern University astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong has received a 2022 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), the United States’ first foundation wholly dedicated to science.
Fong is among a diverse group of 24 early career scholars …
Professor Bryna Kra, the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences,is being recognized for her outstanding support and mentorship of young mathematicians as well as her service to both her department and …
An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed nearly 1,000 mysterious strands, inexplicably dangling in space.
Stretching up to 150 light years long, the one-dimensional strands (or filaments) are found in pairs and clusters, …
Professor Catherine Woolley has been selected 2021 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.
Woolley is the William Deering Professor of Neurobiology and associate dean for research at …