On Dec. 11, leading experts in AI, cybersecurity, and national security discussed AI-enabled terrorism and warfare, emerging ...

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 ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Kexin Zhao earned the Patrick Henry Winston Best Student Paper Award at the 2025 Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), held October 13-15 at the Georgia ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wearable sensor system that predicts fatigue at work. A tiny implant that delivers diabetes drugs on demand. A flexible patch that optimizes the sense of touch for the visually impaired. Through the ...

As president of Schneider Electric North America Operations, Aamir Paul (’00) leads all operations from strategy to execution in Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the US—delivering best-in-class ...

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 ...

In-person conferences can be expensive and difficult to organize, making some wonder whether they are worth the cost and time. The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on all aspects of society, ...