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Fermilab-led initiative — one of just five elite National Quantum Initiative centers funded by the DOE — includes an interdisciplinary team of Northwestern faculty

Art Theory & Practice Professor Michael Rakowitz discusses his work and its connection to his heritage in this week's Profile in the New Yorker.

Report found differences across groups of Americans, notably by gender and race

Study finds improved air quality would avoid health and climate damages

Emily Weiss, Franz Geiger and Amy Rosenzweig are honored for accomplishments in their fields

The Program in Women’s Studies launched in 1975. That was just the beginning of a larger conversation that continues to this day, as conceptions of gender and sexuality continue to evolve.

‘Students will have what they need’ to progress toward their degree, says Associate Dean Mary Finn

Unprecedented observations reveal compact star's true nature, final moments

Sarah Rodriguez's new book explores ‘The Love Surgeon’ and the limits of medical regulation

The College’s new podcast series brings the wisdom of alumni to students as they explore career paths

Event also could give insight into dark energy and the creation of iron

Northwestern professors reflect on the life and legacy of civil rights icon John Lewis

Chemist will receive $250,000 scientific prize for organic materials research

Rare event occurred 10 billion lightyears away, 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang

Global art endeavors include a memoir, a Smithsonian residency and a world premiere opera

Regional institute will address major societal challenges with math-based solutions

Northwestern historian examines the complicated political dynamics of a growing voting bloc

New form of melanin has ability to protect human tissue from X-rays during medical treatment, spaceflight

Docu-series explores the epic journey that babies make from infancy to toddlerhood

Partners include Argonne National Laboratory and leading research universities

Interdisciplinary collaboration uncovers common mechanism regulating gene expression during development

Some call histories that include slavery, racism and African-Americans ‘revisionist history'

Annual Centenary Prize recognizes outstanding chemists who are exceptional communicators

Anthropologist Jessica Winegar will succeed Professor of English Wendy Wall as director of the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

‘Robotic soft matter’ bends, rotates and crawls when hit with light

CAVIDOTS provides easy-to-skim summaries of academic papers

Project will investigate the origins of social inequalities in COVID-19 across neighborhoods in Chicago

Chemists William Dichtel and Emily Weiss are recognized as exceptional young researchers

Artificial molecular pump gives precise control for materials design

New survey data shows the largest drop among police, with trust falling by nearly 10 points

‘The Constitution is on the ballot in November,’ says political science professor Alvin Tillery

Trends indicate that privacy issues and health care provisions are often bypassed

John Alba Cutler and Leslie M. Harris join a class whose work will span the sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts

‘A new beast is out there,’ researcher says of object found in tiny galaxy

In her new course on the Black Death and other health crises, historian Dyan Elliott finds parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic

Minimally invasive approach requires single drop of blood

A Northwestern program rooted in the liberal arts transforms the lives of inmates, students and faculty

Social and behavioral scientists offer research insights to address isolation, prejudice, relationships, polarization, and other pressing issues

Natural-looking color mimics human hair pigmentation

Researchers say selective quarantine can reduce the number of COVID-19 deaths while lessening negative economic impacts

"We are all facing stark truths – in ourselves, our households and our society," writes Associate Professor of Instruction Rachel Webster.

A century of social science research offers clues on human behavior

A subset of retinal neurons communicates differently from the rest of the eye

New method turns foam into higher value rubber and hard plastics

Mathematician Laura DeMarco and chemist Samuel Stupp are recognized for their distinguished achievements in original research

The scholars, who span a wide range of disciplines, join one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies

The GROW program wins acclaim for its support and encouragement of young female mathematicians

Tremendous amounts of hydrogen and methane can be stored in nanoscopic pores

Nanostructures could safely deliver a notoriously fragile drug to virus

Fellowships awarded to individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences

Prestigious fellowship awarded to Héctor Carrillo, Dyan Elliott and Jeffrey Sconce

Faculty and students jumping into a new world of remote learning technologies

Study finds damaged fertilized egg sends signal that helps mother live a longer healthy life

Interdisciplinary team to assess how public thinks, feels and behaves during global pandemic

The awards will enable Carrillo to advance his research on the rise of amateur genealogy

The Alumnae of Northwestern award $125,000 to support a variety of new projects

Funding will allow expansion and launch of first post-secondary educational program for incarcerated women in Illinois

Assistant Professor Raffaella Margutti will use the award to advance her research on the collision of black holes and neutron stars

Breakthrough could have implications for treating a wide variety of human cancers

New remote observatory compresses distances to connect Evanston and Hawaii, allowing Northwestern researchers to venture boldly into space without leaving home

Pioneering neurobiologist Indira Raman draws upon her interest in math and language to reveal how the brain turns cell signals into information and action

Psychology professor Dan McAdams authors a new book about the psychology of the 45th president

Enzyme telomerase is an important target for cancer researchers

Precision measurements can aid understanding of disease, infection and vaccines

His generosity was recognized with the naming of Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Discovery could give insight into coronavirus, which has similar features and functions

The course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA counts 15 Nobel Prize winners among its faculty and alumni

Mirkin is being honored for multiple contributions to the fields of chemistry and nanoscience

Physicist John Joseph Carrasco and neuroscientist Andrew Miri have won the prestigious and competitive fellowship

Prescribed fires help native plants find mates, reproduce and flourish

The Block Museum hosts rare look at Modernist art from Iran, Turkey and India

Two professors work to better visualize probability for the next election

Discrimination in housing market sees decrease during same time period

Dominique Licops, director of the French Language Program, wins one of the French government's highest honors

The award recognizes Mirkin's significant contributions to the advancement of science

The open-source scQubits library will advance work in quantum computing around the globe

Findings in worm with regenerative prowess could aid human tissue engineering methods

Systems can synchronize only when individual parts are mismatched

Researchers demonstrate first stable semiconductor neutron detector

Metal-organic framework-based composites don’t need liquid water to work

Once an “apprehensive” freshman, Isabella Borgula ‘20 has grown into a fellowship-winning young scientist with the confidence to present at an international conference

A lifelong passion for physics drives Mayda Velasco to understand the mysteries of the beginning of the universe