A new study by Professor Ludmilla Aristilde and her team shows how soil microbes steer carbon flow to adapt and create ...

Professors George Wells, Keith Tyo, and Jennifer Dunn will develop microbial technology to recover nitrogen and phosphorus ...

Professor Igor Efimov joins a list of AASL honorees that includes Sir Salman Rushdie, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and three ...

Professor emeritus Peter Voorhees is being honored by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society for his outstanding ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Alessandro Rotta Loria has co-led a newly published Theme Issue of the academic journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Rotta Loria, Louis Berger ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Controlling magnetic states in materials typically requires continuous power or only works in rare, specialized systems. Researchers developed a general theory showing how electric fields can ...

Current lithium-ion batteries rely on scarce and expensive elements like cobalt and nickel, creating sustainability and supply chain challenges. A new study from Northwestern Engineering’s Chris ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Chris Wolverton has been selected to receive the 2025 Materials Theory Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS). Wolverton, Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials ...

Northwestern Engineering graduate students Connie Chau, Ziyi Guo, and Gefei Tan have earned 2025 Global Google PhD Fellowships, a prestigious honor awarded to the most promising young academics in the ...