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Panama Canal Leader Outlines Vision for Water Security, Community Impact
Canal administrator Ricaurte Vásquez Morales spoke at the Northwestern University Transportation Center’s Patterson Lecture, outlining the past, present, and future of the waterway that handles around 5 percent of all maritime trade.May 9, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Rotta Loria Honored with 2025 Innovative Research Award
The award for Professor Alessandro Rotta Loria is presented to an organization or individual that has had a significant impact on the advancement of research and discovery over the last two years and will continue to have a great impact on the field.May 2, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Matthew Skaruppa, Ameet Mallik to Speak at 2025 Graduation Ceremonies
On June 16, Skaruppa and Mallik will address graduates at the McCormick Undergraduate Convocation and PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony, respectively.Apr 22, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Researchers Develop the World’s Smallest Pacemaker, and It Could Be Revolutionary for Newborn Babies With Heart Defects
Smithsonian wrote about the new device developed by Professors John Rogers, Igor Efimov, and Yonggang Huang that is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, eliminating the risks of an extraction surgery.Apr 14, 2025|from Smithsonian Magazine
Your Skin Is Breathing. This New Wearable Device Can Measure It.
Professors John Rogers, Guillermo Ameer, and Yonggang Huang developed the first wearable device that gauges health by sensing gases coming from and going into the skin.Apr 9, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
World’s Smallest Pacemaker Is Activated by Light
The tiny device developed by Professors John Rogers, Igor Efimov, and Yonggang Huang can be inserted with a syringe, and then dissolve after it’s no longer needed.Apr 2, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Feeling the Future: New Wearable Device Mimics Complexity of Human Touch
The device developed by Professors John Rogers, Yonggang Huang, and J. Edward Colgate goes beyond the buzz to create a sophisticated variety of haptic sensations.Mar 27, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Concrete Plans to Transform Cement Production’s CO2 Waste Into New Building Materials
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation produced a radio segment on recent work by Professors Alessandro Rotta Loria and Jeffrey Lopez that shows they can use CO2 to boost the process to produce carbon-negative materials that could be used in materials like plaster, cement and as a replacement for sand in concrete.Mar 27, 2025|from CBC
Bažant Elected Life Member of ASME
The honor is the latest for Professor Zdeněk P. Bažant, who is also the namesake of an American Society of Mechanical Engineers medal that was announced in 2023.Mar 21, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
New Carbon-Negative Material Could Make Concrete and Cement More Sustainable
The innovative process developed by Professors Alessandro Rotta Loria and Jeffrey Lopez converts CO2 into solid, durable, carbon-trapping materials.Mar 19, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Stretching Spider Silk Makes It Stronger
A new study from Professor Sinan Keten found that the amount of stretching determines the fibers’ properties.Mar 7, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Iron Oxides Act as Natural Catalysts to Unlock Phosphorus to Fuel Plant Growth
A new study by Professor Ludmilla Aristilde found that minerals drive phosphorus release at enzyme-like rates.Mar 4, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Society of Women Engineers Hosts 2025 Career Day for Girls
The 54th annual event, hosted by the Northwestern undergraduate student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, welcomed Chicago-area middle school and high school students for labs tours and hands-on engineering activities.Feb 27, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Faculty Spotlight: Lucia Stein-Montalvo
Faculty spotlight for new assistant professor Lucia Stein-Montalvo.Feb 26, 2025
Rogers and Huang Honored with Namesake Medal for Collaborative Research at Texas A&M
The annual award, commemorating the prolific collaboration between Rogers and Huang, will recognize outstanding research by fellows at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study and Texas A&M students.Feb 18, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News