Midway through a long day of testing, high school students from across the country raced around Harris Hall’s auditorium. Bustling with energy, they played a production line game with candy prizes, aiming to demonstrate the law of diminishing marginal returns. The Northwestern Economics Tournament, co-hosted by NU’s economics department and undergraduate students, held its seventh.
In March 2020, the University granted professors an automatic one-year extension to their “tenure clock,” leading many to delay the process to 2021 or later. The extension, granted to any tenure-track faculty whose review process had not yet begun, allowed professors like Political Science Prof. Chloe Thurston to make tenure despite COVID-19 pandemic-related setbacks. “It’s.
Northwestern Now
Counting the many ways Northwestern experts are working to make the world a better place in 2021
Facing no shortage of challenges in 2020 a global pandemic, protests around racial justice and a contentious presidential election Northwestern scholars, researchers and experts have made great breakthroughs, contributions and discoveries.
They’ve found a new way to clean up oil spills, uncovered the limits of free market capitalism in a society with significant inequality, revealed that inside every human is a small amount of star dust and worked to bring equity in education to Chicago children.
Here are several examples of what Northwestern experts are doing now to make the world a better place in the year ahead.