Apple unveiled a new Vision Pro accessibility feature that allows users to control powered wheelchairs using only their eyes, ...

Professors Emma Alexander, Manling Li, Han Liu, Marcelo Worsley, and their students represented Northwestern CS at CVPR 2026 ...

Soft materials and polymers are ubiquitous in our lives and form the basis of many advances in medicine, sustainability, manufacturing, and clean water access. What makes these materials unique is ...

The prize honors an individual who has demonstrated sustained efforts in advancing either theoretical or practical aspects of computational mechanics.

Since graduating from Northwestern, Aaron W. Saak (MS '97, PhD '00) has spent his career in industrial technology companies, moving from roles in engineering to business leadership. Along the way, he ...

Harvesting, storing, and using energy typically require separate materials or devices, making renewable energy systems more complex and less adaptable. This reusable ...

Sustainable access to energy and clean water using low carbon emission technologies is essential to address climate change. We are inventing new technological solutions using integrated approaches ...

All facilities are built on, in, or with earthen materials: soils, rocks, and systems thereof. The PhD Program in Underground Science and Engineering at Northwestern pioneers new knowledge, ...

The Department of Industrial Engineering has seven research areas for students to choose from. Every research area is unique and has its own research theme and course work.

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?