Representing schools and disciplines from across Northwestern, the students on the Global Engineering Trek (GET) Water-Israel met with leading researchers and industry experts to study Israel’s water infrastructure firsthand.
This modeling framework could one day be instrumental in forecasting where debris flows are likely to occur and deciding who needs to be evacuated.”
Daniel Horton, assistant professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
“Water is vital to the planet’s livelihood and my hope is that the science I do contributes to healthier environments on the planet,” says Beddows, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Anthropologist and Professor Mark Hauser talks about his book Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (2021).
Dominica faced ecological and social upheaval when efforts to replace diverse crops with sugarcane failed. This book links the environmental damage caused by plantation slavery to the lives of enslaved laborers in two Dominican enclaves.
Most experiments don’t turn out. That’s why I think it’s important I continue to challenge myself. I never want to forget what it’s like to do hard things like what my students are doing in our research every day.”
— Chemistry professor Will Dichtel
Professor Dichtel completes a swim across the English Channel
Northwestern University researchers helped construct the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
Pilot study using tests developed by Northwestern University researchers will enable Chicago-area residents to test for lead, copper and PFAS.
Low confidence in water quality is associated with perceptions of public corruption. Because perceptions shape attitudes and behaviors, distrust in water quality has a negative impact on people’s health, nutrition and psychological and economic well-being — even when the water meets safety standards.