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Northwestern University is a top-ranked academic research institute that is a global leader in engineering, medicine, business, journalism, and interdisciplinary scholarship.

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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology just hit 10 years of cross-campus collaboration, shaping medicine, sustainability, biomaterials & biotech. By the numbers: 24 faculty • 85+ pubs • 400+ trainees • 8 startups • $53M+ funding. tinyurl.com/3sx4mpt8 #SyntheticBiology #Research #Northwestern
Group portrait of Northwestern University's Center for Synthetic Biology faculty, staff, and affiliates during a May 2026 celebration marking the center's 10th year.
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker addressed quantum industry leaders, scientists, and government officials on April 24 at a keynote event at #Northwestern’s inaugural #Quantum Week. Pritzker pointed to the University’s research strengths & industry partnerships as key to Illinois’ broader strategy.
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Northwestern INQUIRE @nuinquire.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Northwestern + Fermilab quantum data helped train NVIDIA Ising – a new #openAI model for automating #quantum calibration. It analyzes experimental plots, detects charge jumps, and flags anomalies in real time. Read more: tinyurl.com/2utenwn6 #quantumcomputing #AI #NVIDIA #Fermilab
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Big impact happens when disciplines come together. From a dissolvable pacemaker smaller than a grain of rice to breakthroughs in aging and disease, #Northwestern research turns ideas into solutions. Research Impact Day showcased the power of team science. #Northwestern tinyurl.com/5f4efh72
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Northwestern’s Chad Mirkin Wins Prestigious Harvey Prize Mirkin’s groundbreaking work has transformed nanomedicine, drug development, and diagnostics. The Harvey Prize has a history of recognizing future Nobel laureates. More: tinyurl.com/2p9r6xm7 #Northwestern #Nanotechnology #HarveyPrize
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Chad A. Mirkin awarded prestigious international Harvey Prize
Mirkin selected for pioneering discoveries in nanoscience
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Northwestern faculty member Joel Mokyr wins #NobelPrize for showing how technological progress has led to sustained economic growth. tinyurl.com/ym3jheft #economics #innovation #Mokyr #northwestern
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Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Nobel recognizes Mokyr’s theory on sustained economic growth
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Northwestern connection to 2025 Physics Nobel This year’s #NobelPrize recognized macroscopic #quantum tunneling in superconducting circuits. A key enabler behind today’s progress is the transmon qubit, co-designed by Northwestern University physicist Jens Koch. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2yz4ruf4
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Northwestern among top-ranked universities for #entrepreneurship. "These schools are hotbeds of big ideas, buzzy startups, and groundbreaking innovations...propelling future business leaders on their entrepreneurial journeys." tinyurl.com/2s3r4b4y
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Ignition Schools 2025: The Top 50 Institutions Producing Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs and Innovators
The second annual list from Inc. and Fast Company honors the standout schools offering accelerators, venture centers, research opportunities, and more.
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Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University @ipratnu.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
IPR welcomed three new fellows this fall who are investigating power and opportunity in American life—from mass incarceration and political communication to clean energy and fair hiring. Click here to read more: spr.ly/63328Ad53y
IPR's new fellows (left to right): Chika Okafor, Elizabeth Thom, and Alexander Coppock
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
From flexible electronic monitors the size of a Band-Aid to tiny pacemakers that dissolve harmlessly in the body when no longer needed — the work of the Querrey Simpson Institute of Bioelectronics at #Northwestern seems truly miraculous. tinyurl.com/3f6cam35. #research #innovation #biomedical
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Northwestern University Lab Helps Shape the Future of Medical Monitoring
From flexible electronic monitors the size of a Band-Aid to tiny pacemakers that dissolve harmlessly in the body when no longer needed — the work of the Querrey Simpson Institute of Bioelectronics at ...
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Northwestern launches University-wide DS/AI research hub. “Data science and AI are reshaping every aspect of society,” Kho said. “Our goal is to foster an environment where all faculty and students feel confident using AI technologies to make advancements in their fields.” tinyurl.com/ywnm9n9h
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Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence to empower University-wide use of data science and AI
Initiative will support faculty and students using and benefiting from AI tools in their work
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Northwestern’s Rogers Research Group advances medicine through collaborative, interdisciplinary research. “It’s really about [pursuing] science questions whose answers lead to technologies that are meaningful to how we treat patients.” tinyurl.com/2ezckym2
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“Researchers across disciplines are working to understand more about the brain, mind and body during young adulthood,” said Adrian Randolph, dean of Weinberg College. “This institute will take a collaborative approach — something at which we excel at Northwestern. tinyurl.com/2yr865j3 #northwestern
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Northwestern receives $25 million gift to advance adolescent mental health research
New institute will study psychology of emerging adults, leading to innovative wellness programming for students at the University and beyond
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"One of the key insights from this work is that violence concentrates in super small networks. There’s a small number of people who are picking up guns. These (network maps) let you get to that question of ‘Who’s going to get shot next?’" tinyurl.com/ykf8cj85. #northwestern #sociology #gunviolence
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Andrew Papchristos talks gun violence research
Content warning: This story contains mentions of gun violence. Sociology Prof. Andrew Papachristos has worked on community-based gun violence prevention in Chicago for more than 15 years. Papachristos...
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Northwestern scientist Julius Lucks makes an eloquent appeal for why research funding matters to us all. tinyurl.com/yjbk5zca #syntheticbiology #research #northwestern #funding
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What’s next for Northwestern researchers amid funding cuts and work stoppages?
Northwestern researchers received notices from the Department of Defense to stop their work immediately.
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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NU to fund research impacted by stop-work orders
Northwestern will continue to fund research affected by more than 100 stop-work orders announced last week, Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris and University President Michael Schill announced in a ...
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Northwestern research has a huge beneficial impact on society--advancing health and solving real problems. tinyurl.com/3wrtm6n4 #northwestern #research #innovation #funding
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Dental School Clinic, Northwestern University, 1910
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/03/l.... Chu suggested developing better renewable batteries, building more wooden structures and exploring a new potential carbon capture method as potential strategies that may help achieve the goal of net-zero carbon emissions.
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NU hosts former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu spoke with Northwestern students and faculty Wednesday about current obstacles to achieving net-zero emissions and potential technological improvements that ...
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Northwestern #engineers have developed a tiny pacemaker that can fit inside the tip of a syringe and be non-invasively injected into the body. Bioelectronics pioneer John Rogers led the device development, which is especially valuable for pediatric patients. #northwestern tinyurl.com/4natz48v
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World’s smallest pacemaker is activated by light
Tiny device can be inserted with a syringe, then dissolves after it’s no longer needed
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Northwestern Medicine is improving cardiac care & saving lives. The research could "fundamentally change the standard of care for millions of patients living with AFib,” said Dr. Rod Passman, who is leading the REACT-AF clinical trial. #heart #northwestern #medicine tinyurl.com/jzecdmsx
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NIH-funded trial studies if wearables can reduce the need for continuous blood thinners for patients with atrial fibrillation
Northwestern Medicine is an enrollment site for the clinical trial
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Three #Northwestern professors — Julia Gaudio, Rachel Greenfeld and István Kovács — have received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the NSF, the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. shorturl.at/p1msh
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Northwestern #Engineering professor Todd Murphey is the University's inaugural director of transformative research. In this role, he will help expand opportunities to conduct federally funded and secure #research initiatives. researchcomm.northwestern.edu/research-new...
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Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy @trienensinst.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How to reconcile a warming planet with colder, more intense winter weather? ❄️ Faculty Affiliate Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social shared insights from his research on atmospheric shifts and #climatechange for a piece in TIME: time.com/7221680/clim...
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Why Climate Change Sometimes Brings Major Winter Storms
Winter storms will not become a thing of the past as temperatures rise. Here's how climate change affects snow storms.
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Northwestern is leading the way in research innovation--and in researching innovation! #kellogg #northwestern #research www.chicagobusiness.com/education/no...
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Northwestern, Kellogg School land $25 million for new institute
The gift establishes the Northwestern Innovation Institute, which will be led by the Kellogg School, to examine how innovation occurs across science, technology and business.
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Nature’s Tiny Warriors. Known for delivering blows as powerful as a .22 caliber bullet, mantis shrimp should be crushed by their own strikes. But #Northwestern researchers have unlocked their secret: patterned armor that filters stress waves to act as built-in defense. tinyurl.com/2v37sn72
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Mantis shrimp clubs filter sound to mitigate damage
Patterned armor selectively blocks high-frequency stress waves
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
At the Jan. 28 Water Jamboree, Northwestern Engineering Dean Chris Schuh stressed the value of interdisciplinary work and efforts to combat PFAS and forever chemicals, ways to test for lead, hydrology, and the impact of water sustainability. tinyurl.com/56z7f7m5
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Northwestern's innovative life science research gets a major boost from Ryan Family. tinyurl.com/y52xbch3
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Second round of Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund awards more than $2 million to Northwestern scientists
Strategic seed funding fuels transformative research and translation to advance the biosciences and produce societal benefit
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Northwestern professor Andrew Papachristos has studied gun violence and intervention programs for two decades. “The most common misconception about gun violence is that it’s random. But we know...where and when it’s going to happen." tinyurl.com/yw8khasr #northwestern #research #networks #policy
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Stopping Gun Violence
Professor Andrew Papachristos uses network science to curb gun violence.
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Northwestern Medicine obesity expert Dr. Robert Kushner is a member of the commission that devised the new definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity. “The commission’s report is a major step forward in recognizing obesity as a disease and not merely a risk factor." tinyurl.com/mrtnnyk8
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A better definition of obesity
New guidelines use more than just body mass index to diagnose obesity
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Northwestern scientists advancing #green energy with new #battery tech tinyurl.com/3b2te34u
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Green battery discovery turns trash into treasure
Northwestern researchers leverage industrial waste to store energy
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 08/01/2025
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
“This is incredibly exciting because nobody thought it was possible,” said Northwestern University's Prem Kumar, who led the study. “Our work shows a path towards next-generation #quantum and classical networks sharing a unified fiberoptic infrastructure." #quantum tinyurl.com/36em55tv
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First Demonstration of Quantum Teleportation over Busy Internet Cables
Professor Prem Kumar and his team successfully transmitted quantum information through a fiberoptic cable carrying high-speed Internet traffic.
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Northwestern Research @nuresearch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Northwestern researchers take a bold, interdisciplinary approach to solving society's toughest challenges. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uW9.... #Northwestern #research #science #innovation
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Transforming research to transform the world
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