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Mallory Thompson, director of bands at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, will retire at the end of the 2023-24 academic year following a 28-year teaching and conducting career at Northwestern. In 1996, Thompson made history as the first woman to be named to this prestigious position and only the third person to hold the title of director of bands at Northwestern. Throughout her tenure, Thompson directed the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Northwestern’s most selective wind ensemble.

Researchers developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. While it took nature billions of years to evolve the first walking species, the new algorithm compressed evolution to lightning speed — designing a successfully walking robot in mere seconds.

New research from Northwestern University shows a novel approach to capture carbon from ambient environmental conditions that looks at the relationship between water and carbon dioxide in systems to inform the “moisture-swing” technique.

Although a galaxy’s brightness is typically determined by its mass, the new findings suggest that less massive galaxies can glow just as brightly from irregular, brilliant bursts of star formation.

By studying fossils from ancient aquatic plants, researchers found that warming potentially could lead to a previously under-appreciated flux in methane emissions from lakes.

Starting this fall, jazz music fans will have more than twice the number of opportunities to enjoy performances on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus as the Bienen School of Music increases its jazz concert offerings from three per academic quarter to seven.

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a device called Lattice that is smaller than a toddler’s shoebox and can simulate any human disease in multiple organs and test new drugs without ever entering — or harming — the body.

A series of keynote presentations on “Roadmapping the Clean Energy Transition” from leading faculty at Northwestern University and the University of Toronto Monday, Oct. 2 and Tuesday, Oct. 3 on the Evanston campus, will mark the launch of the University of Toronto-Northwestern Decarbonization Alliance, a global social innovation hub catalyzing dialogue and research on progressive decarbonization.
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A person’s genetic makeup plays a role in determining whether they can stick to a strict vegetarian diet, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.

A multi-institutional team of researchers, including Northwestern University scientists, has received $45 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fast-track the development of a first-of-its-kind implant to sense and treat cancer.