The study “The irritant receptor TRPA1 mediates the mosquito repellent effect of catnip” was published in the journal Current Biology on March 4.
Professor Marco Gallio of the Department of Neurobiology discusses this collaborative research from Northwestern University and Lund …
The Great Math Challenge in Biology Contest, sponsored by the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, the Department of Molecular Biosciences, and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, asked contestants to take a real-world problem in biology and propose a …
Professor Emeritus Erwin Goldberg of the Department of Molecular Biosciences discusses his research and career development in an interview in the journal Biology of Reproduction (March 2021).
In the interview, Goldberg describes the impetus for going into the field …
Professor Julia Kalow of the Department of Chemistry is named a 2021 Sloan Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Sloan Research Fellowship is described below on the Sloan Foundation website:
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners
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Professors Xiumin Du and Ilya Khayutin of the Department of Mathematics have been named 2021 Sloan Fellows of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Sloan Research Fellowship is described below on the Sloan Foundation website:
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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The study “Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep” was published in Current Biology on February 18.
Professor Ken Paller, of the Department of Psychology and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, was senior author of the study …
Professor Daniel Horton, of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Jordan Schnell discuss their new study, “Potential for Electric Vehicle Adoption to Mitigate Extreme Air Quality Events in China,” published in the journal Earth’s Future. The study …
Department of Mathematics professors, Bryna Kra and Jared Wunsch have both been awarded the Simons Fellowship in Mathematics from the Simons Foundation for 2021.
The Simons Fellowship is described below on the Simons Foundation website:
The Simons Foundation congratulates
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Myrna García, assistant professor of instruction in Latina and Latino Studies, and the diversity, equity and inclusion committee of the physical therapy and human movement sciences department at Feinberg School of Medicine will receive the Daniel Linzer Award for …
The study “Mu-Tau Neutrinos: Influencing Fast Flavor Conversions in SupernovaeNorthwestern” conducted by a team of Northwestern researchers was published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Senior author Manibrata Sen, discusses the study in the story, “Three flavors are better than …