New finding might explain why quasars flare and fade so quickly A new Northwestern University-led study is changing the way astrophysicists understand the eating habits of supermassive black holes. While previous researchers have hypothesized that black holes eat slowly, new simulations indicate...
Dayna Patterson was selected as a 2023 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Fellow and is the first postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University to receive this prestigious fellowship. The HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program provides each fellow...
Todd Gingrich has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members.Gingrich is an assistant professor of chemistry in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and...
A new study has proposed a solution for combating jet lag, especially among older adults. The research suggests that eating a substantial breakfast in line with the destination's time zone can help with jet lag recovery. The study also advises...
Rising senior Mirabella Johnson knows Northwestern University boasts a vast, powerful alumni community – and she hasn’t been shy about tapping into that network of some 80,000 Wildcats for guidance. Since arriving on campus in 2021, the Chicago area native has...
Cross-field expert to help further Northwestern sustainability research Northwestern University has named Ted Sargent co-executive director of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy (formerly ISEN). Effective immediately, Sargent joins current executive director Michael Wasielewski, the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry, in overseeing...
First large-scale numerical simulation of black hole-neutron star merger matches puzzling observations Last year, Northwestern University researchers reported new observational evidence that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can result from the merger of a neutron star with another compact object (either another neutron star...
Polyurethane plastics are ubiquitous, used everywhere from mattresses to shoes. But once these products are no longer wanted, these materials litter landfills and oceans across the world. Now, a group of researchers at Northwestern University has developed a new recycling method...
Yuchen Liu has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. “K-stability and moduli spaces of higher dimensional varieties” will bring exciting research and training activities...
Curt Horvath has been nominated as the President-Elect of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS). Horvath is professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. "I was privileged to be nominated for the President-Elect of the ICIS, and I am humbled...
