Two Northwestern professors have been elected to the National Academy of Inventors, the University announced last month. Roozbeh Ghaffari and Daniel Martin Watterson were among 169 fellows elected in 2022, according to a University press release. Ghaffari and Watterson will be inducted with other recently-elected fellows on June 27. Ghaffari, a biomedical engineering professor and.
A search committee has been formed to select the next dean of the McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern announced Tuesday. The selected individual will replace outgoing Dean Julio Ottino, who recently announced his decision to step down at the end of the academic year. McCormick Prof. Mark Hersam will chair the committee that is made.
Physics and astronomy Prof. Anna Grassellino received the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Northwestern announced Monday. The award recognizes early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to their respective fields. Grassellino’s work with particle accelerator technology and quantum information science earned her one of this year’s three $100,000 prizes..
Northwestern received a Synergy Grant from the European Research Council to tackle complex research questions, the University announced Wednesday. The funding is a six-year grant worth €9 million, or about $8.97 million, that goes to four principal investigators. The team includes chemistry Prof. Michael Wasielewski, whose research focuses on quantum science. The Synergy Grant will.
What started off as three McCormick students’ biomedical engineering capstone project has become a potentially life-saving intervention for communities struggling with tuberculosis. First-year biomedical engineering graduate student Peter Kouassi (McCormick ’22), Isaac Tenga (McCormick ’22) and Shani Katz (McCormick ’22) have developed a new system to address the lack of rapid, safe and cost-effective tuberculosis.