Flawed research not retracted fast enough to prevent spread of misinformation, study finds June 14, 2022 Could Twitter discourse function as a “red flag” system for problematic research?
Peter Barris elected chair of Northwestern University Board of Trustees June 14, 2022 Alumnus to assume role effective Sept. 1
Songwriters Project participants and new master teacher announced June 14, 2022 The 17th annual project welcomes Grammy Award-winning songwriter Autumn Rowe
‘You define what is possible’ June 13, 2022 During Northwestern’s 164th Commencement, speaker Isabel Wilkerson assures graduates they can do what might seem impossible
Wandering star disrupts stellar nursery June 13, 2022 Event provides new evidence that traveling stars can form binary systems
New journal a place to publish about the material realities of trans life June 13, 2022 The Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is published by Northwestern University Libraries and the Center for Applied Transgender Studies
U.S. Congressman and alumnus John Edward Porter dies at 87 June 10, 2022 Working for decades as an advocate for STEM research, Porter helped secure support for ventures that helped change and even define Northwestern
Two Weinberg College faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society June 9, 2022 Chemist Tobin Marks and poet Natasha Trethewey are honored
Genetic analysis of tree confirms what Indigenous people of Borneo knew June 9, 2022 Fruit-bearing tree originally thought to be one species is actually two
Photosynthesis-inspired process makes commodity chemicals June 9, 2022 New strategy is less expensive, less energy intensive than current industrial processes