Led by Professor John Rogers, the Querrey-Simpson Institute for Translational Engineering for Advanced Medical Systems is launching with $29 million in support from Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey.

Professor Chad A. Mirkin will receive the 2023–2024 Harvey Prize in Science and Technology for his pioneering discoveries that have reshaped nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanomedicine, and drug ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office awarded Northwestern Engineering’s Jie Gu and co-PIs Yiran Chen (Duke University) and Ramesh Harjani (University of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key driver of geopolitical power imbalances, fueling the competition for technological supremacy and economic dominance and intensifying global ...

When you enter a hospital for treatment, you’re probably not thinking about whether the tools to keep you healthy are good for the environment. There are people, however, who are researching that ...

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

A team led by Northwestern Engineering researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. To test the new AI, the researchers ...

When humans work together, they typically share the load. Through cooperation, one person lifts one side of a heavy couch and another person lifts the other side. They talk through motions and feel ...

When one thinks about a diverse environment, indoor areas usually don’t come to mind. However, indoor environments are ripe for microorganisms, which can enter on humans and via exchanges with outdoor ...