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Artificial Metabolism Turns Waste CO2 Into Useful Chemicals

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 ...
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Truby Team Receives DARPA Director’s Fellowship to Advance Robotic Materials Research

Northwestern Engineering’s Ryan Truby and his team members received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship, which is presented to selected DARPA Young Faculty ...
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Iron Minerals’ Hidden Chemistry Explains How Soils Trap Carbon

Scientists know iron oxide minerals store large amounts of carbon in soils, but lack a detailed, quantitative understanding of the specific chemical mechanisms that allow them to bind such a wide ...
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Bažant, Farha Named to National Academy of Inventors

NAI fellow status is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors. The program recognizes academic inventors who have demonstrated a “spirit of innovation” by creating or ...
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3D-Printed Scaffolds for New Blood Vessels

Heart disease is a leading cause of heart attacks, and current bypass grafts often fail to fully regenerate healthy blood vessels. Using a rapid 3D-printing process called MµCLIP, researchers created ...
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QSI-TEAMS to Fast-Track Medical Device Development

At a time when medical technology breakthroughs often stall long before reaching patients, Northwestern University’s Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics (QSIB) has become a striking exception ...
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Bone Regeneration Technology Used in First Patient Surgery

A bone regeneration device using bioactive materials pioneered by Querrey Simpson Institute for Regenerative Engineering at Northwestern University (QSI RENU) director Guillermo Ameer was recently ...
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New Institute to Accelerate Adoption of Breakthrough Medical Technologies

Northwestern is launching an institute to catalyze the translation of groundbreaking University research discoveries into treatments and devices that improve patients’ lives. The Querrey-Simpson ...
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Ottino Receives Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award

Academics OverviewExplore our degrees, programs, courses, and other enrichment opportunities. All Areas of StudyView a chart of all study areas cross-categorized by degree type. Undergraduate Study ...
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Bandage-Like Device Brings Texture to Touchscreens

Digital touch has lagged far behind sight and sound because current haptic devices can’t match the human fingertip’s spatial or temporal resolution. Researchers created VoxeLite, an ultra-thin ...
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Professor Jie Gu Receives $3.8 Million DARPA ScAN Program Award

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 ...
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DOE’s ARPA-E Program Awards $2.7 Million to Northwestern Engineers for Microbial Wastewater Resource Recovery Technology

A new research project proposed by Northwestern Engineering’s George Wells, Keith Tyo, and Jennifer Dunn has been one of 10 selected for funding by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research ...