Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

CS + LS PhD alum Natalie Araujo Melo Wins Doctoral Dissertation Award

Melo (PhD ’26, MS ’25) earned the 2026 Network of the Learning Sciences in Canada Doctoral Dissertation Award for Excellence ...
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John Rogers Elected a Royal Society of Canada Fellow

Northwestern Engineering’s John Rogers has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) as part of the Class of 2026. Rogers, one of 105 fellows elected to this year’s class, is a world ...
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Newly Identified Antiferromagnetic Material Could Lead to Faster, More Efficient Memory Technology

Conventional antiferromagnetic materials exhibit net zero magnetization and spin-degenerate energy bands, making them incompatible with current memory technologies that rely on net magnetization. A ...
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Study Reveals New Way Cells Organize Their Genomes

Scientists have long understood that molecular machinery regulates the genome, but less is known about how the nucleus’s physical and chemical environment helps organize DNA and influence cell ...
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From Atoms to Innovation

Northwestern Engineering’s work in this age of new materials aligns with one of the school’s strategic priorities: Concurrent Materials Design. The school’s strengths in materials science, generative ...
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Materials for Electronics & Photonics

Electronic materials provide the basis for the information technology that revolutionized the 20th century and continue to have immediate and dramatic impacts on the way we live. Technological ...
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PhD Admissions

The IEMS PhD Program accepts students just once a year, in the fall. Applications are open for Fall 2027 admission in September 2026. For more information about IEMS PhD admissions you may download ...
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Notestein Named McCormick’s Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Education

Northwestern Engineering's Justin Notestein has been named the McCormick School of Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Education, effective September 1, 2026. A member of the ...
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Emeritus Professor Wolfgang Sachtler Passes Away

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New Nanomedicine Wipes Out Leukemia in Animal Study

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20 Years Later: Cobots Co-opt Assembly Lines

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AI Gets a Cerebellum

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