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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
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