Seven Northwestern faculty members — Elisa Baena, Connor Bain, David O’Neill, Sarah Rodriguez, Scott Sowerby, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan and Sadie Wignall — will be honored with 2026 University Teaching Awards. The annual recognition is given to professors who demonstrate excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching.

On 8–9 January 2026, nationwide protests in Iran culminated in one of the deadliest crackdowns in recent history. This essay explores how symbolic power, media framing, and distorted risk perception shaped a collective perceptual error.

In Iran, economic demands are political. Like “Woman, Life, Freedom,” today’s protests are cross-class and pluralistic, binding bread-and-butter grievances to calls for human dignity and freedom, a signature pattern of 21st-century movements.

Fall 2025 Newsletter: Program in Global Health Studies

Students from disciplines across Northwestern recently collaborated to pitch solutions to complex, real-world global health challenges at Global Health Day's Intramural Global Health Case Competition.

Jessica Pamonicutt, founder and owner of Ketapanen Kitchen, is leading an Indigenous food sovereignty class at Northwestern University in Illinois

Indigenous chef and educator Jessica Walks First delivered a lecture about her culinary “journey to healing” to Northwestern faculty and students at Harris Hall Thursday evening. Walks First is the executive chef and owner of Ketapanen Kitchen, a Native American-owned catering company in Chicago. At NU, she teaches Indigenous foodways as a Radulovacki Visiting Scholar....

Justine Liu and Klara Vinn, both third-years in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, have been named recipients of the prestigious Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, known as the Voyager Scholarship.

When over 40 faculty, students and staff arrived in Stellenbosch, South Africa in March for the official launch of the SU/NU Global Health Knowledge Hub, the funding of the program was uncertain. Since then, funding has been restored, but only after months of delay. The hub, which is the new physical location for the decades-long...

Dr. Daniel Wozniczka’s (Weinberg ’10) career has taken him to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an Epidemic Intelligence Service trainee, the chambers of Congress as a whistleblower and, most recently, back to his alma mater.  Wozniczka testified before a 2022 congressional committee investigating “the lost month” — what many in the CDC...

New initiative supports collaborative activities in the areas of education, research and community engagement

Alum, current MPH student will spend year living and working in Asia

Scholarship supports young researchers pursuing careers in natural sciences, math and engineering

An FP Analytics synthesis report on key takeaways from Abortion Access Today: Global Insights and Comparisons, a symposium hosted by the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern Un...