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Mirkin Awarded Prestigious International Harvey Prize
Professor Chad Mirkin was selected for his pioneering discoveries in nanoscience.Nov 25, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Ottino Receives Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award
The award honors Professor Julio M. Ottino’s outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering.Nov 20, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Sixteen McCormick Faculty Named Among Global ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ for 2025
The list identifies researchers who showed significant influence by publishing highly cited papers.Nov 18, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
DOE’s ARPA-E Program Awards $2.7 Million to Northwestern Engineers for Microbial Wastewater Resource Recovery Technology
Professors George Wells, Keith Tyo, and Jennifer Dunn will develop microbial technology to recover nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater as marketable products.Nov 10, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
New Nanomedicine Wipes Out Leukemia in Animal Study
By restructuring a common chemo drug, Professor Chad Mirkin boosted the treatment’s power by 10,000-fold.Oct 29, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Understanding the Climate Cost of Cleaning Our Water
An analysis by Professor Jennifer Dunn of more than 15,000 US treatment plants offers a roadmap to cutting their emissions.Oct 8, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Notestein, Beltran Receive 2025 Meshii Awards
The award, donated by the family of emeritus faculty member Masahiro “Mike” Meshii, honors excellence in design education.Oct 7, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Order from Disordered Proteins
A team with Professor Krishna Shrinivas designed a computational framework using machine learning algorithms to design intrinsically disordered protein sequences with desired behaviors or properties that directly inverts over physics-based models.Oct 7, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
CRISPR’s Efficiency Triples with Spherical Nucleic Acid Delivery System
The new system developed by Professor Chad Mirkin delivers CRISPR machinery more safely and effectively into cells.Sep 5, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Lopez Receives ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship
Professor Jeffrey Lopez will aim to develop new polymer binders that stabilize high-capacity iron fluoride conversion cathodes, which typically fail due to repeated expansion and contraction during cycling.Sep 5, 2025
Easier Plastic Recycling Is on the Horizon
Popular Science wrote about the recent work by Professor Tobin Marks to develop a new catalyst made from nickel that may make sorting plastics a thing of the past.Sep 2, 2025|from Popular Science
No-Sort Plastic Recycling Is Near
A new catalyst developed by Professor Tobin Marks could make mixed plastic recycling a reality.Sep 2, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Building “Smart” Cell Sensors for Safer, More Precise Cancer Therapies
New synthetic biosensors developed by Professor Josh Leonard give immune cells the ability to read their environment and act only when needed.Aug 22, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Clean Hydrogen’s Iridium Problem? Solved in an Afternoon
A new megalibrary developed by Professors Chad Mirkin and Ted Sargent accelerates the discovery of an iridium alternative for hydrogen production.Aug 19, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
AI Data Centers Driving up ComEd Electricity Prices, Experts Say
Professor Jennifer Dunn told WGN that data centers that provide services related to AI are likely to blame for a rise in electricity prices.Jul 24, 2025|from WGN-TV Chicago