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Northwestern University is receiving a $25 million grant from the Howard and Paula Trienens Fund to advance global sustainability and energy solutions at one of the University’s flagship research institutes.

One part of the brain surface, a region called the temporal pole because it is at the very tip of the temporal lobe, could not be linked to a specific function for at least the first 100 years of research on the cortex. Northwestern Medicine scientists have just discovered that this mysterious and seemingly silent surface is actually one of the most colorful regions of the brain. It has critical functions in word comprehension, face recognition and the regulation of behavior.

Northwestern University has named Christopher Schuh the next dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective Aug. 1. He also will serve as the John G. Searle Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.

June 10 will mark the 30-year anniversary of the U.S. Congress’ passage of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act, which required the inclusion of women in federally funded research.
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As of Oct. 3, the Supreme Court is back in session with a new slate of highly consequential cases on its docket. To better understand what is at stake, Northwestern Now spoke with faculty to learn what cases they are following and what the ramifications are likely to be.
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Dr. Phyllis Zee also will present “Circadian Rhythms and Long COVID” at the symposium “The Interconnection of Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Long COVID at 1:30 p.m. (E.T.) Tuesday, June 6, at SLEEP 2023.

Although astrophysicists theoretically should be able to detect gravitational waves from a single, non-binary source, they have yet to uncover these elusive signals. Now Northwestern researchers suggest looking at a new, unexpected and entirely unexplored place: The turbulent, energetic cocoons of debris that surround dying massive stars.

Northwestern scientists discovered how to soften up hair follicle stem cells to enable them to grow hair again.

Fathers can make a huge difference in whether an infant is breastfed and placed to sleep safely, according to a recent survey of new fathers led by scientists at Northwestern University and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

In the early 1980s, Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discovered gigantic, one-dimensional filaments dangling vertically near Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole. Now, Yusef-Zadeh and his collaborators have discovered a new population of filaments.