Northwestern chemistry Prof. Chad Mirkin received the 2022 Faraday Medal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, according to a Thursday news release. Mirkin, who has taught at the ...

J. Fraser Stoddart shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his design and creation of molecular machines through mechanical bonding. But his first priority these days isn’t research — it’s ...

Northwestern’s Chemistry of Life Processes Institute held a panel discussion between female scholars in STEM on Wednesday at the Technological Institute, with the event attracting so many students ...

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Synthetic biology continues to expand what’s possible in science and medicine. By harnessing nature’s protein biosynthesis system to make proteins and biopolymers, the discipline opens new frontiers ...

Richard Van Duyne produced groundbreaking research and mentored scores of graduate and postdoctoral students during 48 years as a chemistry professor and researcher at Northwestern University. “In my ...

Organisms, from bacteria to human beings, have autonomy in large part because of locomotion — the conversion of stored energy into slowly repeating electrical and mechanical signals that allow ...

Northwestern chemistry professor Fraser Stoddart has his name on a Nobel Prize. But he and the university want his name on a few more patents. The university and Stoddart sued a former collaborator ...

The ability to sense heat protects the body from burns and injury. But how the body actually feels temperature has remained ...

J. Fraser Stoddart shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his design and creation of molecular machines through mechanical bonding. But his first priority these days isn’t research — it’s ...