McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
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John A. Rogers Speaks on the Future of Bio-integrated, Dissolvable Electronics
Northwestern-Art Institute Partnership Expands With Mellon Grant
Solar Cell Design Research Featured On NBC News
Hundreds Gather for Public-Private Partnership Discussion at Lipinski Symposium
IBM Executive Stephen Gold Speaks on the Future of Jeopardy!-Winning Watson
Nathan Youngblood Named McCormick STAR Award Winner
Evolution Inspires More Efficient Solar Cell Design
McCormick Office of Career Development Hosts Tech Expo 2013
Dean’s Seminar Series Welcomes John A. Rogers
Jan D. Achenbach Lecture Honors Longtime McCormick Faculty Member
Researchers Create Method for More Sensitive Electrochemical Sensors
McCormick Professor Explains the Popularity of Crowdfunding on Marketplace Money
Researchers Develop Integrated Dual-mode Active and Passive Infrared Camera
McCormick Freshmen Design Prosthetic Fitting Solutions for Upper-limb Amputees
McCormick Professor Compares Watson and Deep Blue in Popular Science
Northwestern Sophomore Brings Design Thinking to Kids with SparkTruck
Northwestern Transportation Center to Host Sixth William O. Lipinski Symposium
McCormick Graduate Student Wins Foresight Institute’s Distinguished Student Award
McCormick Researchers, Alumni, Featured In Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Series
New Antidepressant Drug Featured On CBS News, U.S. News & World Report, Others
Fewer Resources May Explain Why Some Female Faculty Publish Less, Study Says
McCormick Names Winners of Cole-Higgins Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Advising
New Geometries: Researchers Create New Shapes of Artificial Microcompartments
Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Approach Sheds Light on Crystal Structure Solution
New Antidepressant Acts Very Rapidly and Is Long Lasting
New $8 Million Grant to Fund Research in Quantum Communication
After 100 Years, Understanding the Electrical Role of Dendritic Spines
Eric Masanet Talks "Vampire Power" on WBEZ’s Worldview
Four McCormick Professors Named AAAS Fellows
Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Featured by CBS News, Daily Mail, Others
Outside a Vacuum: Model Predicts Movement of Charged Particles in Complex Media
McCormick Professor’s Work toward High-tech Prostheses Featured in New York Times
Liz Gerber Authors Op-ed on ‘Learning to Fail’
New Structures Self-Assemble in Synchronized Dance
VIDEO: Designing a Smarter Wheelchair with Robotics
Breakthrough Nanoparticle Halts Multiple Sclerosis
Northwestern Student Start-up Wins National Award in Cleantech Open
Dag Kittlaus on Siri, Success, and the Technology of Tomorrow
Simplifying Heart Surgery with Stretchable Electronic Devices
Paper-and-Scissors Technique Rocks the Nano World
Clinical Associate Professor Featured in New York Times Article
Computational Mechanics Medal Named after McCormick Professor
Two Events Strengthen Connections Between Research and the Marketplace
McCormick Staff Members Honored for Service
Twitter-based Vote Predictor Named Top Pick by PBS Idea Lab
Diego Klabjan Receives IBM Award Inspired by Jeopardy-Winning "Watson"
Researchers Create Laser the Size of a Virus Particle
Dean’s Seminar Series Welcomes Siri Founder Dag Kittlaus
Researchers Make Strides Toward Selective Oxidation Catalysts
Yonggang Huang’s Vanishing Electronics Featured on Discovery News
Phil Messersmith Featured in LiveScience Article
Erik Luijten Highlighted in NAE Podcast
Students Advance in Synthetic Biology Competition
HIV Test, Clean Energy, and Surgical Safety Tool Recognized
New HIV Test for Babies in Africa Could Make Big Difference
Study Reveals Impact of Public DNS Services; Researchers Develop Tool to Help
View from the Intersection: Watson for Everyone
Priscilla Lu, Venture Capitalist and McCormick Alumna, Talks Entrepreneurship
Design Thinking and Communication: Signature Segal Course Gets a New Name
Chrysler Group Industry Day Brings Design Talk, Networking to Northwestern
Bay Area Alumni, Supporters Gather for Entrepreneurship Panel
Scientists Discover that Shape Matters in DNA Nanoparticle Therapy
Space X, Boeing, and Microsoft among 70 Companies to Recruit on Campus
Willens Engineering Life Sciences Wing Unveiled
Visionary Research on Detecting Cancer Cells Early Receives NIH Funding
McCormick Launches Master of Science in Analytics
McCormick Welcomes Class of 2016
Disappearing Act: Biocompatible Electronics Vanish When No Longer Needed
Science Meets Beauty: McCormick Student Wins 2012 Scientific Images Contest
Big-Data Approach Leads to More Accurate Hurricane Forecasting
McCormick Alumna Ginni Rometty Named Most Powerful Woman in Business
Karen Chou Named 2012 Civil Engineer of the Year by ASCE of Illinois
Global Partnership in Materials Science Established
Thermoelectric Material the Best at Converting Heat Waste to Electricity
Ten McCormick Faculty Members and Two Administrators Named to ASG Honor Roll
McCormick Senior’s Hand-Crank Vaccine Fridge Wins National Dyson Award
McCormick Researchers Boil Water Without Bubbles
Mercury in Water and Fish Detected With Nanotechnology
Science Gets Personal: Duel Between Grad Student and Professor Presented on Stage
Design for America Adds Six Studios, Holds Second Annual Leadership Studio
Materials Science Students Win ASM Undergraduate Design Competition
Northwestern Researchers Set World Record for Highest Surface Area Material
McCormick Builds Relationships in India
Jorge Nocedal Receives Dantzig Prize for Work in Mathematical Optimization
Fellows Present Findings in Inaugural Innovation to Commercialization Fellowship
Researchers Develop Simplified Approach for High-Power, Single-Mode Lasers
In Memoriam: James Farley, Successful Businessman and Generous Donor
Northwestern Scientists Create 'Chemical Brain'
Future Memory: Ferroelectric Materials Could Bring Down Cost of Cloud Computing
Paper or Plastic? Well, It’s Complicated
McCormick Gears Up for Fall Scientific Play 'The How and the Why'
Summer Business Program for Doctoral STEM Students First of its Kind
McCormick Students Receive Top Accolades at Conference
Silver Lining in Bad Weather: U.S. Infrastructure Tested by Extreme Weather
Joy Caluag Named McCormick STAR Award Winner
Northwestern, NuMat Technologies, and GTI Land U.S. Department of Energy Funding for Work on Natural Gas Vehicles
VIDEO: Northwestern Formula Racing Showcases Car in Formula SAE Michigan
Breaking the Skin Barrier
Toward Achieving 1 Million Times Increase in Computing Efficiency
Northwestern Students Debut New Solar Car at Formula Sun Grand Prix
Seven McCormick Students Recognized in the Dow Sustainability Innovation Challenge
Re-imagining Infrastructure: Gianluca Cusatis Envisions Roads, Bridges of the Future
Gov. Quinn, Science and Business Leaders Convene at Innovation Economy Conference
Northwestern Researchers Create “Rubber-Band Electronics”
Synthetic Biology Symposium Brings Together Science Leaders from Three Nations
New Head of Knight News Innovation Lab
Wing Kam Liu Awarded Prestigious Gauss-Newton Medal
Northwestern Medical Start-Up Wins 2012 TechWeek Launch Competition
Northwestern to Host Business, Political, Science Leaders for Innovation Economy Conference
On a Roll: NuMat Wins Another Big Competition for Clean Energy Tech
Northwestern to Host Concurrent Web Science, Network Science Conferences
Grants Add to Northwestern-Qatar Partnership
Hundreds of McCormick Students Graduate in 154th Commencement Exercises
VIDEO: Making it Work at Design Competition
$10 Million to Support Medical Application of Nanotechnology
Northwestern Postdoctoral Fellow Wins $500,000 Career Award
McCormick to Celebrate Commencement for Class of 2012
Swingin' Engineers: Dance Class Inspires Creativity, Enhances Collaboration
Groupon’s Andrew Mason, VC Peter Barris Address Entrepreneur@NU Conference
Researchers Show Complex Networks Have Same Skeletons
Boeing CTO John Tracy Speaks on Future of Aviation
Northwestern Researchers Design Mystifying Materials
Taking Solar Technology up a Notch: New Solar Cell Shines with Potential
Student-Designed Autonomous Robot ‘Googly Eyes’ Wins 2012 Design Competition
Northwestern’s Tiny House on Display at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
Energy Experts Share Thoughts on ‘A Roadmap for a Sustainable Future’
New I2C Fellowship Gives Northwestern Students a Closer Look at Innovation
Northwestern’s National Society of Black Engineers Named ‘Large Chapter of the Year’
Connor Eck, Senior in Applied Math and Creative Writing, Wins Gotaas Award
Dean’s Seminar Series Welcomes Boeing Chief Technology Officer John J. Tracy
Northwestern-Argonne Institute Co-Directors Announced
No Remote Control: Student-Designed Robots Compete for Cash Prizes
Two Grand Challenges Explorations Grants for Global Health
New Brain-Machine Interface Could One Day Help Paralyzed Individuals
VIDEO: Infrastructure Technology Institute: Keeping Roads and Bridges Safe
McCormick Professors Recognized with 2012 Charles Deering McCormick Awards
MMM Holds 20th Anniversary Celebration
Next-Generation Nanoelectronics: A Decade of Progress, Coming Advances
Success and Failure in Engineering: A Paradoxical Relationship
Daniel Lee Named McCormick STAR Award Winner
Monica Olvera de la Cruz Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Young Presidents' Organization Visits McCormick for Design Symposium
Research Labs and Rehearsal Rooms: Shared Lessons for Dramatists and Engineers
Wired Magazine Features Computer Journalism Start-Up Narrative Science
Shedding Light on Southpaws: Northwestern Research Explains Left-Handed Minority
Northwestern Junior Wins $20,000 Scholarship from Google and Associated Press
Greg Olson Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dean’s Seminar Series Welcomes Tony Award-Winning Designer Todd Rosenthal
Northwestern Entrepreneurs Win Almost $1 Million in Rice Business Plan Competition
Design:Chicago Panelists Share Thoughts on 'ROI by Design'
Eleven McCormick Students Win Summer Undergraduate Research Grants
Ford CEO to speak at 31st Annual William A. Patterson Transportation Lecture
McCormick Celebrates National Robotics Week 2012
Crate and Barrel Co-founder Carole Browe Segal Discusses 'Serial Entrepreneurship'
Tiny Hitchhikers Attack Cancer Cells
Design for America Start-up Featured in the Chicago Tribune
McCormick Diversity Efforts Paying Off
Drawing Connections Between Food Webs
Professor Mary Silber Named SIAM Fellow
Reducing Cash Bite of Wind Power
Matthew Grayson Receives Humboldt Alumni Award from German Foundation
Design:Chicago Panelists to Discuss ROI by Design
High School Student Selected as ISEF Finalist for Work in McCormick Lab
Health Meets Engineering for Students Visiting Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
National Geographic Recognizes World-Changing Discoveries
Joseph Schofer Co-authors Op-ed about the Need for Federal Transportation Data
Students Helping Students: Mentors Help Undergrads Prepare for Engineering Careers
Who Wouldn't Pay a Penny for a Sports Car?
Using Virtual Worlds to ‘Soft Control’ People’s Movements in the Real One
A New Generation of Flexible Graphene Transistors
Knight Lab Mines Social Media Data to Aid Illinois Primary Voters
Design Expo Showcases Student Work, Offers Recruitment Opportunities
VIDEO: Northwestern Students Show Off Tiny House
Sona Wang of Ceres Venture Fund Discusses Careers in Venture Capital
Phillip Messersmith’s Bio-inspired Medical Glue Featured on WBEZ’s Clever Apes
Influencing Stem Cell Fate
Energy Squeeze: Squeezing Polymers Produces Chemical Energy but Raises Doubts about Implant Safety
Northwestern Student Team Wins $100,000 in Clean Energy Challenge
The Door is Open
Northwestern, McCormick Recognized by Chicago Architecture, Construction, and Engineering Mentor Program
Northwestern Student Entrepreneurs Featured in MIT’s Technology Review
McCormick Students Participate in Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium
Students Help Bring Car Charging Stations to Evanston
Segal Design Institute Hosts First Annual Design Expo
McCormick and INVO Announce New Director of New Business Ventures
A Step Toward Better Electronics
New Leadership and Structure for the Segal Design Institute
The Future of Manmade Materials
Computer Scientist Honored as Outstanding Early-Career Researcher
McCormick Students Compete for $100,000 in Clean Energy Challenge
VIDEO: Northwestern Formula Racing Revs Up for Competition
Researchers Develop New Method for Creating Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Two McCormick Professors Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Andrea Zakrzewski Named McCormick STAR Award Winner
Colleague's Therapy Robot Aids McCormick Professor’s Rehabilitation
Northwestern Research Video Wins Honorable Mention in International Challenge
McCormick Senior Among Inc. Magazine’s ‘15 Women to Watch in Tech’
High School Students with McCormick Ties Named Finalists in Intel Competition
The New Tech-led Boom: Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece Authored by Julio M. Ottino
Structural Engineer Bill Baker Proposes Design Philosophy
McCormick Professors Recognized by International Science Society
Hundreds of Students Meet Recruiters at Tech Expo Career Fair
Crossing Disciplines to Squeeze Out Space on the Wireless Spectrum
Chemist Receives National Academy of Sciences Award
Building Leaders, Networks, and Skills
Biomedical Engineering Professor Featured in New York Times
Breakthrough in Early Cancer Detection
Faculty Profile: Charles W. N. Thompson
Northwestern Design for America Co-Founders Get $50,000 for Healthcare Start-Up
A 3-Dimensional View of 1-Dimensional Nanostructures
Computer Journalism Start-Up Makes Wired UK’s ‘25 Big Ideas’ for 2012
Dean’s Seminar Series Welcomes Structural Engineer Bill Baker
Researchers Create Hips that Function Better and Last Longer
Bike-Friendly App Takes Second Prize in ‘Apps for Metro Chicago’ Grand Challenge
Joseph Schofer Named National Associate by National Research Council
With LEND, McCormick Students Give Local Entrepreneurs a Boost
Analytics Goes to the Head of the Class
Freshman Engineering Students Design Improved Treadmill for Wheelchair Athletes
Students Present Innovative Software in McCormick-Medill Collaboration Course
Unlocking Algal Secrets May Help Clean Up Radioactive Isotopes
Fluid Mechanics Expert Sandip Ghosal Awarded American Physical Society Fellowship
When Will Artificial Molecular Machines Start Working For Us?
Ken Forbus Receives Humboldt Research Award From German Foundation
Professor John Rudnicki Honored by American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Bruce Mau Receives Top Design Recognition from Royal Society in London
Experts, Policy Makers Debate High-Speed Rail at 2011 Lipinski Symposium
Chemical Engineer Justin Notestein Seeks to Clean Up Chemical Processes
Alumni Profile: Five Friends Stay in Touch 15 Years Later
Transforming Business and Markets
Computer Journalism Start-Up Wins Chicago Innovation Award
McCormick Professors Win Prestigious Gates Foundation Grant
McCormick Student Wins National Prize, Scholarship for Starting Reading Program
McCormick Announces New Master of Science in Analytics Program, Starting Fall 2012
More Promising Natural Gas Storage?
Researchers Design Rechargeable Battery with Improved Charge Capacity, Rate
Solar Power Could Get Boost from New Light Absorption Design
Michael Jewett Receives Prestigious Packard Fellowship
Northwestern Team Takes Top Honors at Synthetic Biology Competition
Experts Speak on Cold Fusion Controversy at Dean’s Seminar Series Film Screening
McCormick Staff Members Honored for Service
VIDEO: Now Playing, 'A Number' Explores Possible Impacts of Human Cloning
McCormick Alumna Ginni Rometty Named CEO of IBM
Northwestern Celebrates Reopening of Renovated Seeley G. Mudd Library
Todd Kuiken Gives TED Talk on Bionic Arms
Dean’s Seminar Series Presents Documentary Screening of 'The Believers'
New Generation of Superlattice Cameras Add More ‘Color’ to Night Vision
Procter & Gamble Design Chief Discusses Product Design, Marketing in the Digital Age
Patents, Awards Come Out of Senior Engineering Design Class
Could a Computer One Day Rewire Itself?
Northwestern Receives $2.36 Million from Dow Chemical for Sponsored Research
Frustration Inspires New Form of Graphene: Researchers Find Promise in 'Crumpling'
Design Rules Will Enable Scientists to Use DNA to Build Nanomaterials with Desired Properties
Ted Belytschko Receives William Prager Medal
Seventy Companies to Recruit Northwestern Students at Industry Day 2011
Joseph L. Schofer Receives 2011 Roy W. Crum Award
Dean's Seminar Series Welcomes Procter & Gamble Design Officer Phil Duncan
Czech Engineering Society Names Prize after McCormick Professor Zdenek Bazant
'Moneyball': New Film Shows How Statistical Analysis Can Create Winners in Baseball
McCormick Alum Named Head of MIT’s Materials Science and Engineering Department
Researchers Realize High-Power, Narrowband Terahertz Source at Room Temperature
Jan Achenbach Receives Rare Honorary Degree from China’s Zhejiang University
Eight McCormick students named among ‘Fifty for the Future’
Researchers Use Carbon Nanotubes to Make Solar Cells Affordable, Flexible
Master’s Students Get Early Start on Job, Internship Readiness at Career Boot Camp
Tobin Marks to Receive Dreyfus Prize Medal, Deliver Public Talk on Catalysis
VIDEO: Students Create Automatic Pill Dispenser for Rehabilitation Institute Patient
McCormick Names Teacher and Adviser of the Year
Engineers for a Sustainable World Students Conduct Water Research in Chile
N.W. Harris Distinguished Lecture Series Welcomes Microsoft’s Craig Mundie
Design for America Expands Nationally, Featured in Fast Company Magazine
Bruce Mau Featured in Crain's Chicago Business
New Materials Hold Promise for Better Detection of Nuclear Weapons
Computer Journalism Start-Up Narrative Science Featured in New York Times
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Receives Federal Grant
Hiding Objects With a Terahertz Invisibility Cloak
Researchers Investigate New Mechanism For Predicting How Diseases Spread
Two McCormick Apps Finalists in ‘Apps for Metro Chicago’ Contest
David Ventre Named McCormick STAR Award Winner
VIDEO: ITI Summer Camp Teaches High Schoolers about Infrastructure
Michael Jewett Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Researchers Create Tattoo Electronics For Medical Applications
Dean Julio Ottino Featured in ‘Let Go and Lead’ Project
Dean's Perspective: Competing for Talent in a Global Landscape
McCormick Alum and Entrepreneur Nikhil Sethi Featured in Forbes
Two McCormick Professors Chosen to Serve on Edison Awards Steering Committee
Nanostructure Promotes Growth of New Blood Vessels, Mimics Natural Protein
Living Little: Tiny House Shows How Every Inch Matters in Sustainable Living
Hani Mahmassani’s Research Featured in Washington Post Story
Design for America Receives ‘Notable’ Awards
New Facility to be Named in Honor of Ronald and JoAnne Willens
Mark Hersam Receives $1 Million Grant from W. M. Keck Foundation
S. George Bankoff, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, Dies
Bruce Lindvall Named Outstanding University Representative of the Year
Using their Right Brains: Engineers Get on the Stage
McCormick Travels to Singapore to Further Connections
Vote for McCormick Professor’s Open Internet Challenge Submissions
Randy Snurr Receives AIChE Award
McCormick Advisory Council Member Richard C. Halpern Dies
Michael Silver to Head Knight News Innovation Lab
New ‘Batphone’ App Uses Acoustics to Determine Location
VIDEO: Society of Women Engineers Offers Outreach, Network for Future Engineers
New Northwestern-Argonne Institute Builds on Existing Collaborations
NUvention:Web Students Create New App for Downtown Evanston
Hundreds of Graduates Receive Master’s and PhDs in McCormick Ceremonies
McCormick Seniors Graduate Amid Convocations and Speeches
Barbara Liskov Gives Computer Science and Life Lessons
STEP Program Teaches Science and Engineering to Teen Girls
Engineering Students Build Off-Grid ‘Tiny House’
Eight Students Recognized in Dow Sustainability Innovation Challenge
Researchers Reveal how Prehistoric Native Americans Made Copper Artifacts
Undergraduate and Graduate Students Help Design Blast-Resistant Materials
Leon Keer Awarded Mindlin Medal
MatSci Club Visits Fourth Grade Classes
Ryan Brock Wins Gotaas Award
Graduate Student Bryce Meredig Named Presidential Fellow
Joel Mokyr Speaks on History of Technology
Helen Oloroso Receives Clement J. Freund Award
VIDEO: SHPE Provides Network for Engineering Students
David Ferrucci Speaks About Jeopardy!-Playing Watson
Design for America Students Tell Their Stories Through Pop-Up Studio
Three Teams Triumph at Annual Design Competition
Getting Your Money's Worth From Your ISP
Boeing Awards Grants to McCormick Student Groups
McCormick Teams Perform Well in Solar and Formula SAE Car Races
Northwestern Recognizes Six with McCormick Teaching Excellence Awards
Michael Jewett receives Agilent Early Career Professor Award
Robots Compete for Prizes at May 21 Design Competition
VIDEO: Danny Abrams Uses Math to Explain Human Behavior
Five NU Professors Receive CAREER Awards
Rebecca Weaver Gill Named McCormick STAR Award Winner
Register Now for Northwestern Entrepreneurship Conference
Northwestern Holds KTE National Convention
Mark Williams Advocates Change Through Hospitalists
Public Forum and Symposium on Synthetic Biology May 10 and 11
Jane Snowdon Makes the Case for Smarter Cities
Tobin Marks Receives $250,000 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences
Ted Belytschko Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Revamped Formula SAE Team to Race in Michigan
Dean's Seminar Series, EECS and Cognitive Science present David Ferrucci
NU Microgravity Team to Fly in NASA’s Weightless Wonder
Northwestern Experiment Headed to Space Station on Endeavour
Dean's Seminar Series presents Mark Williams
NU Solar Car to Race in Formula Sun Grand Prix
NU Global Health Week Highlights Research and Education Opportunities
Researchers Create Terahertz Invisibility Cloak
Centennial Solar Panel System Installed on Ford Building
Seventeen McCormick Students Win Undergraduate Research Grants
Design:Chicago Panelists Talk Innovation in Healthcare
Dean's Seminar Series presents Jane Snowdon
Learning to Be a Leader
CEE Distinguished Lecture Series Welcomes Bill Baker
McCormick Announces Two New Chairs
What it Takes to Go from Idea to Success
BME Department Holds Midwest Biomedical Engineering Career Conference
New Funding Search Tool for Researchers
Infrastructure Technology Institute Selected for U.S. DOT Research Day
New Model of Whiskers Provides Insight into Sense of Touch
Registration Open for SWE’s Annual Summer Camp for Girls
Dean's Seminar Series and the Center for Leadership Welcome Robert J. Thomas
NUvention Classes Featured as Best New Courses in Inc. Magazine
Modeling Best Locations for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Pond Alga Could Help Scientists Design Effective Method for Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste
McCormick Graduate Intramural Basketball Team Wins Championship
Disaster Relief Response: How Can It be Improved?
Aviation Day to Feature United Airlines CEO
Students Partner with Lincoln Park Zoo to Create Mobile App
Design: Chicago Panelists To Discuss Innovation in Healthcare and Design
McCormick Moves Up in Recent U.S. News and World Report Rankings
How Natural Disasters and Political Unrest Affect the Internet
Dean's Seminar Series and INVO Host Commercialization Seminar
Dean's Seminar Series Hosts Discussion on Disaster Response and Reconstruction
VIDEO: Design for America Creates Bear as Teaching Tool for Diabetic Children
McCormick Student Ben Shorofsky Wins Circumnavigator Award
IBM Senior VP Ginni Rometty Offers Lessons to Northwestern Community
David Allen on Sustainability Research and Education
Joseph Schofer Speaks on Transportation on ABC7 NewsViews
ESW To Hold Sustainability Summit April 1 and 2
New Switching Device Could Help Build Ultrafast Quantum Internet
McCormick Alumnus Appointed Director of New University of Chicago Institute
Tiny Gems Take Big Step Toward Battling Cancer
Panel Discusses Robots, Opera, Death, and the Singularity
New Stretchable Electronics Device Could Make Cardiac Ablation Therapy Simpler
Researchers Discover New Shapes of Microcompartments
Dean's Seminar Series Welcomes David T. Allen
Global Architecture Brigades Students Build School in Honduras
Ranking of Top Male Tennis Players Produces Some Surprises
NICO to Host 2011 Complexity Conference
IBM Senior VP Ginni Rometty to Give IBM Centennial Lecture on March 11
Researchers Discover New Way to Design Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts
Findings Challenge Conventional Wisdom of How Neurons Operate
Zenonas V. Rekasius, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, Passes Away at 83
Chris Hendrickson’s Green Research for the Future
Bio-inspired Sensors Hold Promise
Karen Smilowitz Uses Logistics for the Greater Good
McCormick School of Engineering Launches Chinese Web Site
What a Rat Can Tell Us About Touch
Four Northwestern Faculty Members Honored as Outstanding Early-career Researchers
New Engineering Study Abroad Program in Istanbul
Robots and Opera: 'Death and the Powers' and the Intersection of Art and Science
Jeannette Wing Advocates Computational Thinking
Digital X-ray Systems Implemented in Guatemala
Discovery of Mini “Water Hammer” Effect Could Lead to Better Water-repellant Surfaces
Don Norman Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Dean's Seminar Series and ISEN Welcome Chris Hendrickson
Knight News Innovation Laboratory Launches at Northwestern University
Dean's Seminar Series Welcomes Jeannette M. Wing
Mastering Engineering Management: An Interview with Keith Donaldson
Michelle Bledsoe and Bradley Baker Named McCormick STAR Award Winners
Synthetic Materials That Behave Like Mollusk Shells
Mathematical Model Could Help Rescue Fragile Ecosystems
Professor Samuel Stupp Profiled in Fast Company Magazine
MEM Program Featured in IEEE Spectrum Magazine
Method Prints Nanostructures Using Hard “Pen” Tips Floating on Soft Polymer Springs
Nanowires Exhibit Giant Piezoelectricity
Finding New Ways for Surgeons and Engineers to Collaborate
Mark Beeman Gives Insights into Eureka Moments
Two Seniors Honored with Churchill Scholarships
Robotic Ghost Knifefish Could Pave Way for Highly Agile Underwater Robots
Breakthrough in Converting Heat Waste to Electricity
Tiny 'Eyeball' Camera with Adjustable Zoom Could Aid Robotics, Night Vision
Self-assembling Structures Open Door to New Class of Materials
3-D Map of Atoms Sheds Light on Nanoscale Interfaces in Teeth
McCormick Offers Career and Networking Opportunities at Annual Tech Expo
Registration Open for Career Day for Girls
Celeb Tweets Influence Big News Stories in 2010
Dean's Seminar Series Welcomes Nathaniel Soper and David Mahvi
The Power of Collaboration: Q and A with Baxter Chief Scientific Officer Norbert Riedel
VIDEO: Improv Group Provides Creative Outlet for Graduate Students
McCormick Student Named National Co-op of the Year
Two Professors Elected Fellows of American Physical Society
VIDEOS: Architectural Engineering and Design Student Profiles
Choir of Electric Fish Makes Debut in Interactive “Scale” Exhibit at Netherlands Festival
Engineers for a Sustainable World Builds Ram Pumps in Philippines
Using New Materials To Make More Reliable Nanoelectromechanical Systems
ITI Bridge Sensor Project Featured in Chicago Tribune
Facebook Study Shows Extent of Spam Wall Posts, Compromised Accounts
Researchers Follow the Money to Show Complicated Ways People Connect
Faculty Profile: Danny Abrams Uses Math to Explain Human Behavior
McCormick’s Use of Clickers in Classrooms Profiled in New York Times
Researchers Create New High-Performance Fiber
Researchers Create World’s First High Performance Infrared Camera Based on Type-II InAs/GaSb Superlattices
Former McCormick Staff Member Honored With World War II Medal
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Honored at Lipinski Symposium
Seven Straight Wins for Fed Challenge Team
VIDEO: McCormick Alums Create McCormick Research Collaboration Website
Malcolm MacIver Awarded Presidential Early Career Award
Researchers Create High-Power Single Mode Quantum Cascade Lasers
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell Speaks On the Future of Space Transport
McCormick Staff Members Honored for Service
VIDEO: McCormick Students Study Architecture and Design in Berlin
Graduate Student Profile: Steven Greene Helps Bring Graduate Students Together
Update on Tech Construction
NICO Announces New Co-Director; New Administrative Home
Dean's Seminar Series Presents Gwynne Shotwell
Farley Center for Entrepreneurship Mentioned in Businessweek Article
McCormick Launches New Research Initiative Websites
Hear Architects Speak at Bruce J. Graham Memorial Lectures
McCormick and Kellogg Receive $80,000 Grant from the General Motors Foundation
Northwestern Receives $12 Million to Improve Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Experts to Examine the Science -- and Fiction -- of Classic Sci-Fi Films
Industry Day and Interview Day Provide Job and Internship Opportunities for Students
McCormick Advisory Council Life Member Edward Campbell Dies
Hani Mahmassani Quoted in Discover Magazine
Chad Mirkin Now Elected to All Three Branches of the National Academies
Using a Complex Systems Approach to Study Educational Policy
Optical Technology Shows Potential for Prescreening Patients for Lung Cancer
McCormick Teacher and Adviser of the Year Named
U.S. DOT Official Peter Appel Visits McCormick
Dean Ho Receives Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award
Synthetic PCR Mimic Could Lead to Highly Sensitive Diagnostics
See the Winners of Northwestern’s Science in Society Scientific Images Contest
McCormick Does Well in New NRC Rankings
Researchers Create First Bipolar Magnetic Junction Transistor
Geckos Inspire New Method to Print Electronics on Complex Surfaces
Richard Hay Jr. Named New Director of McCormick Office of Corporate Relations.
New Technology Pinpoints Most Influential People Tweeting
Harold Kung to Receive Gabor A. Somorjai Award
Silverman Hall Takes Gold
Beer + Fish + Oil = Science Cafes
Researchers Nano-engineer New Aluminum Alloy
Graduate Student Attends Annual Nobel Laureate Meeting
Free Performances of Play about Scientist and Storyteller Richard Feynman
McCormick Announces Eight New Advisory Council Members
McCormick Alum Encourages Women in Engineering
Most of McCormick Class of 2010 Had Jobs at Graduation
McCormick Offers Expanded Personal and Professional Development For Students
McCormick Grad Sets New Pi Record
EXCEL Program Helps Prepare Incoming Students
Pens That Write with Light Offer Low-Cost, Rapid Nanofabrication Capabilities
George Nejmeh Named McCormick STAR Award Winner
Researchers Find Universal Law For Material Evolution
Financial Times Highlights the ‘Rise of the Business-Savvy Engineer’
Combined Technologies Offer Promise for Detecting Colon Cancer in Women
ITI Hosts Summer Camp for High School Students
Joshua Leonard Testifies About Synthetic Biology
New Technology Visualizes How Matisse Changed “Bathers”
Researchers Create Highly Porous Material to Store Energy
Kinea Design Featured on Cover of Test & Measurement World Magazine
Civil Engineering Seniors Challenged by Real-World Projects
AquaLab's Ono Software – More Than One Million Users Served
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute Announces Undergraduate Summer Scholars
Ginni Rometty's McCormick Convocation Remarks
NU Solar Car Racing Across Country
Frey Prize Winners Announced
Researchers Find a New Approach to Ranking and Rating Soccer Players
Symposium Addressed How to Keep Preoccupied Walkers Safe Around Railways
McCormick Symposium Honored Toshio Mura
Researchers Discover New Properties of World's Thinnest Material
Fourteen Graduate Students Receive NSF Research Fellowships
McCormick Students Selected for Business Certificate Program
VIDEO: Student Group Global Water Brigades Creates Sustainable Water Solutions
Student Team to Race in American Solar Challenge June 20 to 26
The Biomechanics of Information: Going More Miles Per Gallon With Your Brain
Undergraduate Isabelle Ji Awarded Udall Scholarship
Study Shows Math Mentors More Effective in Start of Career
MGLC Announces Engineering and Science Art Fair Winners
Dean's Centennial Seminar Series Presents Mark Agulnik and John Flaherty
VIDEOS: Students Build Software Businesses in NUvention: Web
Three Teams Prevail at Annual Design Competition
Student Groups Receive Grant to Install Solar Array on Ford
Greg Holderfield Appointed Co-director of MMM Program
New Study Shows How Networks Keep Themselves in Synch
McCormick to Offer New MS in Global and Ecological Health Engineering
Emily Ayshford Awarded University Circle Scholarship
Student-designed Robots Compete for Glory and Prizes May 22
Twenty McCormick Professors and Lecturers Named to Honor Roll
Design For America Holds the Better Alternative Challenge
VIDEO: Undergraduates Design Scuba Gear for Woman Born Without Arms
David Kosnik named McCormick STAR Award Winner
Bill Baker on the World's Tallest Building
Three McCormick Administrators Named to Honor Roll
Q&A: Don Norman on Design in a Complex World
Research Shows New York is Getting Less Homeland Security Funding than Optimal
New Faculty Profile: Ramille Shah
McCormick Start-Up Featured in BusinessWeek
VIDEO: Undergraduate Research Profile of Dan Schuster
Chad Mirkin Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Symposium to Honor Toshio Mura
Dean’s Centennial Seminar Series Welcomes Bill Baker of SOM
Northwestern Students Receive $10,000 Prizes from Dow Sustainability Innovation Challenge
Eyjafjallajokull Global Fallout: Airports Affected Are Not Necessarily the Ones You Would Think
Scott Barnett Researches Fuel Cells to Make Fossil Fuels More Efficient
VIDEO: Students Build Robots in Mechatronics Course
Two McCormick Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Design:Chicago Showcases Top Local Designers
Four McCormick Students Named '50 For the Future'
McCormick Student Receives Goldwater Scholarship
Printed Origami Offers New Technique for Small, Complex Structures
VIDEO: Graduate Students Create Solar-Powered Batteries
Grand Challenges Lecture Series Welcomes Steven Rosen
McCormick Staff Member Receives Ver Steeg Award for Faculty and Staff
Tech Home to New Cleanroom Research Facility
William Kath and Jorge Nocedal Named SIAM Fellows
Design:Chicago Showcases Design Community
Chad Mirkin Honored for Pioneering Research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Barge CEO to Discuss the Future of River Transport April 14
Postdoctoral Fellow Named Emerging Entrepreneur
John Troy Named Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering
Dean's Seminar Series Welcomes Harry Kraemer
Yonggang Huang Writes Review Paper for Science
NUCATS Offers Programs To Promote Interdisciplinary Research
Hugging the Heart Electronically
Death of Professor Donald N. Frey
McCormick Professors Named Fellows of Research Societies
Bartosz Grzybowski Featured on BBC Radio Program
McCormick Professors Receive More Than $39 Million in Stimulus Funding
Researchers Characterize Stem Cell Function
McCormick Becomes New Academic Home of the Center for Leadership
McCormick Student Finalist for Fun Theory Award
McCormick Alum Takes Third Place in Northwestern Short Fiction Contest
NUvention:Web Helps Students Create and Launch Web Businesses
Tobin Marks Honored Twice at the Technical University of Munich
Three McCormick Professors Receive CAREER Awards
Jan Achenbach to Receive Theodore von Karman Medal
Young Women to Experience Hands-On Engineering at Feb. 27 Career Workshop
Dean's Centennial Seminar Series Welcomes Michael Jewett and Josh Leonard
Mark Hersam Receives Outstanding Young Investigator Award
Northwestern Research Images Garner Attention in Washington, D.C.
Students Win First Place for Video Showing how Dollar Bills Move
Four McCormick Faculty Participate in Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium
McCormick Graduate Student Selected to Attend Nobel Laureate Meeting
Greg Olson Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Surface Science Goes Inorganic
Grand Challenges Lecture Series Welcomes Phillip Messersmith
BusinessWeek Names Don Norman One of World's Most Influential Designers
Monica Olvera de la Cruz Honored by Department of Defense, Named NSSEFF Fellow
Teresa Woodruff Speaks on Oncofertility at Grand Challenges Lecture
Prem Kumar and Hooman Mohseni Elected Fellows of SPIE
Growing Cartilage -- No Easy Task
Susan Morris Named McCormick STAR Award Winner
Dirk Brockmann Receives Young Scientist Award
Cate Brinson Named Fellow of ASME
X-Rays Drive Formation of New Crystals
McCormick School Student Awarded Churchill Scholarship
Mussel-Inspired "Glue" for Fetal Membrane Repair
Number One Honor Goes to Northwestern Chemist Chad Mirkin
Research Team 'Virtualizes' Supercomputer
Malcolm MacIver Works as Script Consultant for New Show 'Caprica'
Grand Challenges Lecture Series Welcomes Teresa Woodruff
Game-Changing Nanodiamond Discovery for MRI
Professor Dirk Brockmann's Research Featured on CBS Show "NUMB3RS"
New Quantum Cascade Lasers Emit More Light Than Heat
Nobel Laureate Highlights Heilborn Symposium Jan. 6-8
Research Profile: Josh Leonard Programs Cells to Target Tumors
Scientists Use Bacteria to Power Microgears
An Easy Way to See the World's Thinnest Material
Alok Choudhary Named AAAS and ACM Fellow
McCormick Student Named to Board of Anita Borg Institute
McCormick Student Named Academic All-American
Surendra Shah Elected to Chinese Academy of Engineering
Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections
Two at McCormick Named Boeing Engineering Students of the Year
Researchers Demonstrate 100-Watt-Level Mid-infrared Lasers
VIDEO: Engineering World Health Repairs Locally, Thinks Globally
Graduate Student Wins Prize for Solving Water Problem
Builders of New Minneapolis Bridge Honored at the Lipinski Symposium
Dean's Centennial Seminar Series Welcomes Douglas Losordo
Noshir Contractor Part of Two New Network Science Centers
VIDEO: News at Seven Provides Personalized News Experience
Building Biogas Digesters in Nicaragua
Q. Jane Wang Named Fellow of ASME
McCormick Staff Members Honored for Service
Silverman Hall Opens, Encourages Medical Discoveries
SWE Earns National Award at Conference
New Nanocrystalline Diamond Probes Overcome Wear
Preparing Students for Success
David Seidman Edits Materials Research Society Bulletin
Undergraduate Research Profile: Drew Mitzelfeld
Professor Noshir Contractor joins Web Science Trust
McCormick Professors to Participate in New Cancer Research Center
Ken Alder: The Epic Journey to Create the Meter
Finding Nano and Culture in Munich
Detecting the Undetectable in Prostate Cancer Testing
Northwestern's Intelligent Information Lab Featured in NY Times
Dean's Centennial Seminar Series Presents Ken Alder
Business Week Names Two Northwestern Design Programs As Among Best in World
Research Group Uses Sonar for Computer Power Management
Four McCormick Faculty to Participate in Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium
VIDEO: McCormick Campus Centennial Celebration
McCormick Research Projects Receive $4 Million from NSF
Inaugural Fine Lecture to Feature MIT Engineering Dean
Lance Fortnow's Article on Computer Science Problem Featured in NY Times
McCormick Teacher and Adviser of the Year Named
Using Synthetic Evolution to Study the Brain: Researchers Model Key Part of Neurons
College Students Vote Smarter than Expected
Life of Marie Curie to be Staged at McCormick
International Materials Institute to be Established at McCormick
How Would Einstein Use E-mail?
Smart Memory Foam Made Smarter
Career Development Seminar Series Offered for McCormick Graduate Students and Alumni
Popular Science Cafés Offer Even More This Year
Harold Kung Wins 2009 Thiele Award from AIChE
Three New Chairs Take Over Departments
Art Meets Engineering: Audio Installation Will Let Fish Sing
Neurons Found to be Similar to Electoral College
Celebrate McCormick's Centennial at the Dittmar Gallery
VIDEO: Incoming Freshman EXCEL Through Intense Summer Program
Marks Receives Von Hippel Award from Materials Research Society
Why Do Workers Reject New Technologies?
Promise of Nanodiamonds for Safer Gene Therapy
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