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Northwestern to Receive $50 Million to Study Life Sciences Using Mathematics
The new institute, with Professor William Kath serving as deputy director, will be an international hub focused on fundamental questions.Sep 14, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Niall Mangan Receives DOE Early Career Award
Mangan will use the award to advance research in semi-automated methods to characterize energy systems from complex data.Aug 7, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
What Does a ‘Twinkling’ Star Sound Like? Take a Listen.
In a new study, a Northwestern University-led team of researchers developed the first 3D simulations of energy rippling from a massive star’s core to its outer surface.Jul 27, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern Establishes Julio M. Ottino Professorship
The professorship recognizes Ottino’s leadership and long-term commitment to the University and the McCormick School of Engineering.Jul 25, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Christina Kosmowski Encourages Graduating Seniors to Say Yes
Kosmowski, CEO at LogicMonitor, and Dean Julio M. Ottino spoke at the 2023 Undergraduate Convocation on June 11.Jun 12, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Rodney D. Priestley Challenges Graduates to Use Education for Good
Priestley and Dean Julio M. Ottino spoke at the PhD Hooding and Master’s Recognition Ceremony on June 11, part of Northwestern’s 165th Commencement.Jun 12, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Christopher Schuh Named Dean of McCormick School of Engineering
A renowned researcher, entrepreneur, educator, and alumnus, Schuh will join Northwestern from MIT.Jun 6, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Graduate Student Emma Zajdela Awarded Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
This fellowship will enable her to perform research with S. Levin and M. Oppenheimer at Princeton to model the Dynamics of Complex Socio-Ecological Systems at the Nexus of Environmental Challenges, Scientific Collaboration, and Conflict.May 25, 2023
How Danny Wells Uses his ESAM Experience to Connect Different Disciplines
Wells honed his ability to collaborate at Northwestern, and he uses that skill now to link math to biology.May 16, 2023
Graduate Student Ben Hyatt Earns NSF Fellowship
For his fellowship, Hyatt's proposed work in numerical analysis seeks a more robust understanding of time-stepping stability in spectral methods, especially in the solution of convection-diffusion problems arising in the simulation of astrophysical and geophysical fluid flows.May 5, 2023
Christina Kosmowski, Rodney D. Priestley to Address 2023 McCormick Graduates
On June 11, Kosmowski and Priestley will speak at the McCormick Undergraduate Convocation and PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony, respectively.Apr 6, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Curiosities of the World
Professor Daniel Abrams uses applied mathematics to investigate complex systems – and a diverse array of intriguing topics.Mar 17, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Gwynne Shotwell Receives Prestigious Washington Award
The award is conferred annually upon an engineer whose attainments have promoted the well-being of humanity.Mar 13, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
McCormick Student Receives New Scholarship to Spur Innovation
Jun Yamasaki was named a 2023 Quad Fellow, part of an initiative of the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and United States designed to build ties among the next generation of scientists and technologists.Mar 2, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
Daniel Abrams Named NICO Codirector
An expert on nonlinear dynamics, mathematical geoscience, and the physics of social systems, Abrams will succeed Professor Luís A.N. Amaral on February 1.Jan 27, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News