Northwestern Engineering’s Lisa Volpatti received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Michael Rubenstein has been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Chief of Naval Research (CNR) Fellows program. Launched this year, the ...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Northwestern University $30 million over five years to establish a new center aimed at uncovering a hidden layer of information within the human ...

Buildings shape daily life. They influence the air people breathe, the energy we use, and the comfort of the spaces where we live and work. As environmental conditions shift, engineers and designers ...

Electronic materials provide the basis for the information technology that revolutionized the 20th century and continue to have immediate and dramatic impacts on the way we live. Technological ...

Northwestern Engineering’s work in this age of new materials aligns with one of the school’s strategic priorities: Concurrent Materials Design. The school’s strengths in materials science, generative ...

The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in The Graduate School Policy Guide. For more information on BME requirements, please see the BME ...

The Biomaterials Group aims to develop self-assembled, bio-integrated electronic, synthetic, and nanoscale materials for biomedical applications. Research and teaching areas include self-assembled ...

Quantum teleportation could provide long-distance quantum connectivity via the existing fiberoptic infrastructure, but the photons needed for teleportation are lost among the millions of light ...

Polyurethane is one of the world’s most widely used plastic materials, but it’s often overlooked in our daily lives. Yet whether you’re at home, at work, or in your vehicle, it is usually not far away ...

Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation, director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC), and professor of civil and environmental engineering, ...

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?