Latest Releases

The online space should be more equitable for woman scientists, but a new study finds a strong gender imbalance.

Five Illinois universities, led by Northwestern University, have established the Metropolitan Chicago Data-science Corps (MCDC) to help meet the data science needs of the Chicago metropolitan area. The interdisciplinary corps will assist a wide range of community-based groups in taking advantage of increasing data volume and complexity while also offering data science students opportunities to apply their skills.

An application based on a novel material invented in the lab of professor Guillermo Ameer will be widely available for use in musculoskeletal reconstruction surgeries to directly benefit patients.

Northwestern University announced today that its ambitious fundraising campaign, We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern, raised over $6 billion from more than 174,000 members of the Northwestern community.

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Family has made the largest single gift in Northwestern University’s history, a $480 million gift that will accelerate breakthroughs in biomedical, economics and business research and enable the University to redevelop the Ryan Field football stadium.

Inspired by the aerodynamics of wind-dispersed seeds, researchers developed microfliers, which could be broadly dispersed to monitor pollution and airborne disease.

Engineers are introducing a new platform that enables makers, hobbyists and novice programmers to build their own battery-free devices that run with intermittent, harvested energy.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed an antibody that can be used to treat muscular dystrophy.

Hypertension that leads to vascular dementia in older adults begins to impact the brain by middle age, reports a large new Northwestern Medicine study, the first to show the process begins so early. But in some middle-aged individuals with this damage, their brains reorganize to bypass the damage and enhance communication between brain cells, the study also found. And these people did better on tasks related to cognitive function.

COVID-19 experts from Northwestern Medicine say the highly anticipated FDA announcement Friday about booster shots will settle questions about booster timing for the general population and people with underlying health conditions.