The prize honors an individual who has demonstrated sustained efforts in advancing either theoretical or practical aspects of computational mechanics.

Professors Emma Alexander, Manling Li, Han Liu, Marcelo Worsley, and their students represented Northwestern CS at CVPR 2026 ...

Certain cancer-driving proteins resist nearly all existing treatments, making many aggressive cancers effectively untreatable. Researchers devised a strategy to use protein-like polymers called ...

Barkot Simegn, a third-year mechanical engineering student, has become the first Northwestern student to receive a Patti Grace Smith Fellowship. The fellowship program connects students and faculty ...

Engineers have long assumed that heating metals always softens them, but how metals behave at extreme deformation rates remained unclear. This counterintuitive finding reframes purity as a design ...

At the Jan. 16 symposium “Advancing the Science of Engagement in Digital Safety Research,” the Northwestern University Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design (HCI+D)—a collaboration between ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Sidhanth Mohanty earned a Best Paper Award at the 66th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2025) last month in Sydney. Mohanty joined the McCormick ...

The most promising path for scalably small refrigeration is with semiconductors called transverse thermoelectrics, but current models of their electronic behavior cannot explain their experimentally ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Cécile Chazot has received a US Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Award, an honor recognizing next-generation STEM leaders poised to solidify the United ...

A research team developed a medium-entropy thermoelectric material that combines low heat flow with efficient electrical transport by leveraging hidden nanoscale structural features. Former PhD ...

Restoring blood flow after an ischemic stroke can trigger secondary brain injury, causing inflammation, neuronal death, and long-term disability that current treatments do not address. Researchers ...

Natural biological systems cannot efficiently convert waste CO₂ or its derivatives into useful building-block chemicals at a scale that can keep pace with rising atmospheric carbon. Engineer a fully ...