Professor Yonggang Huang is one of 74 fellows elected this year, and one of nine international fellows picked.

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A research team with Professors Wei Chen and Ryan Truby harnessed physics, computation, and 3D printing to autonomously produce materials that change shape on demand.

Manuela Veloso is the Head of JPMorganChase AI Research and Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was faculty in the ...

As freshmen, engineering students meet regularly with faculty advisers to select courses and familiarize themselves with McCormick. At the end of the first year, students in mechanical engineering ...

Northwestern Engineering undergraduates have been collaborating with neighboring groups and individuals to address human challenges for nearly three decades. In Design Thinking and Communication (DTC) ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Petia Vlahovska has earned a Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award (TRAILBLAZER) from the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Vlahovska, a professor of engineering sciences ...

CRISPR has the power to correct genetic mutations, but current delivery methods are either unsafe or inefficient, keeping the technology from reaching its full medical potential. With the power to ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

The breakthrough could make scans sharper, faster, cheaper, and safer — expanding access to high-quality nuclear medicine imaging for patients worldwide. Physicians rely on nuclear medicine scans, ...

Lignin is abundant and full of valuable carbons, but microbes struggle to digest it efficiently because of its complex structure and high energy cost. For years, scientists have marveled at bacteria’s ...

Monica Olvera de la Cruz Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, Physics and Astronomy Director, Center for ...