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Robotic Touch Sensors Are Not Just Skin Deep
A team led by Professor Matthew A. Grayson have overcome a major barrier to achieving a low-cost solution for advanced robotic touch.May 9, 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
Selim Shahriar Wins 2025 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Award
Selim Shahriar won a 2025 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program award for his visionary idea to reconcile quantum mechanics with the theory of general relativity.Mar 19, 2025|from US National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Karan Ahuja Wins ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition Award
Ahuja and the Google Android XR team were acknowledged for pioneering the interaction framework of the operating system through exemplary industry-academia collaboration.Mar 11, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Electrical Engineering Alum Maxim Raginsky Elevated to IEEE Fellow
The grade of Fellow recognizes the extraordinary accomplishments of IEEE Senior Members who have contributed to the advancement or application of engineering, science, and technology.Mar 11, 2025
Inaugural Recipients of Crown/IIP-Seed Awards Announced
New seed funding will advance science and engineering research collaborations between Northwestern and five Israeli institutions.Feb 28, 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
Electrical Engineering Alum Russell Taylor Johns (’82) Elected to the NAE
Currently a professor at Pennsylvania State University, Russell Taylor Johns is one of 128 members of the 2025 class. Johns was cited for “developing thermodynamically rigorous algorithms for modeling hydrocarbon recovery processes.”Feb 13, 2025|from National Academy of Engineering
Manijeh Razeghi Selected as Conference Chair of the 2025 International Materials Summit
Professor Manijeh Razeghi will serve as conference chair of the International Materials Summit, scheduled February 17-19 in Boston.Feb 6, 2025|from International Materials Summit
Nivedita Arora Named an ‘Emerging Rockstar’ by “IEEE Pervasive Computing” Magazine
The magazine segment highlights rising stars in fields including mobile systems, ubiquitous computing, and the Internet of Things.Feb 5, 2025|from IEEE Pervasive Computing
An Experimental Test of Quantum Nonlinearity
Supported by a grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation, Mahdi Hosseini and Selim Shahriar aim to build and test an ultra-sensitive optomechanical system to determine whether quantum mechanics is linear or non-linear and whether gravity behaves classically or quantum mechanically.Feb 4, 2025
Professor Emeritus Horace Yuen Passes Away
Yuen, a leader in physics- and mathematics-based quantum and classical cryptography, passed away on January 16.Jan 21, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Advance in Perovskite Solar Cells Improves Efficiency, Durability
A novel method developed in Professor Ted Sargent’s lab addresses perovskite solar cell durability challenges, bringing the technology closer to commercial use.Jan 9, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
‘Nobody Thought It Was Possible’: Quantum Teleportation Is Here
BBC Science Focus wrote about Professor Prem Kumar’s breakthrough in quantum physics that could pave the way to achieving a quantum InternetDec 23, 2024|from BBC Science Focus
First Demonstration of Quantum Teleportation over Busy Internet Cables
Professor Prem Kumar and his team successfully transmitted quantum information through a fiberoptic cable carrying high-speed Internet traffic.Dec 20, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News