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Deadline is March 29; grant recipients announced for winter 2021
Marco Williams received funds for âMurders that Matter: Impact Campaign.â
The Office of the Provost is accepting applications to support scholarly and creative work for faculty in fields with little external or start-up funding through the Provost Grants for Research in Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts.Â
Eligible expenses include funding for research assistants (including federal work-study students), purchase of research materials or equipment and expenses related to data-collection such as surveys.
Spring proposals are due March 29, 2021. See the website for more information on eligibility, criteria and how to submit an application online.
Real-time dialogue with a dreaming person is possible
Dreams take us to an alternative reality. They also happen while we’re fast asleep. So, you might not expect that a person in the midst of a vivid dream would be able to perceive incoming questions and provide answers to them. But a new study led by Northwestern University researchers shows that, in fact, they can.
“Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep” published today (Feb. 18) in the journal Current Biology. Read the study here.
The researchers studied individuals who aimed to have a lucid dream, in which a person is aware they’re dreaming. Study participants were briefed in bidirectional communication before sleep. Some also practiced with sensory stimulation, such as beeps or lights. Participants were instructed to signal researchers when they experienced a lucid dream, usually with a sequence of large eye movements to the left and to the right.
Emission-Free Renewable Power Generation can Improve China’s Air Quality
Written by AZoCleantechFeb 17 2021
Poor air quality accounts for premature death in around 1.2 million Chinese citizens every year. And public health outcomes are especially ominous during adverse air quality events, like the infamous episodes of the Airpocalypse winter haze.
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Now, a research team from Northwestern University speculated whether the extensive implementation of electric vehicles (EVs) could assist China to prevent these fatal events. The solution depends on several factors.
The investigators concluded in a recent study that air quality and the benefits of EVs toward public health as well the potential of these EVs to decrease carbon emissions in China depend on the composition of the electric grid and the type of transport electrified.
Air quality and public health benefits of EVs as well as their ability to reduce carbon emissions in China are dependent on the type of transport electrified and the composition of the electric grid.
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Nominations invited for $250,000 Kabiller Prize
World’s largest monetary award for achievement in nanomedicine to be presented alongside $10,000 Kabiller Young Investigator Award
February 11, 2021 | By Mark Heiden
Northwestern University is now accepting nominations for two prestigious international prizes: the $250,000 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, and the $10,000 Kabiller Young Investigator Award.
The deadline for nominations is May 17, 2021. Recipients will be evaluated and chosen by an independent committee of experts in nanotechnology.
Established in 2015, the Kabiller Prize is the world’s largest monetary award for outstanding achievement in nanomedicine. It recognizes researchers who have made significant, career-long contributions to the field of nanotechnology and its application to medicine and biology. The Kabiller Young Investigator Award is given to emerging researchers who have made recent groundb