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2024
- Prof. Espinosa Named to National Academy of Inventors
- Prof. Tao Sun named 2024 Global Highly Cited Researcher
- Cao part of new Engineering Research Center to Improve Robot Dexterity
- NIMSI HAMMER Team demonstrates English Wheel Robot at HAMMER Annual Review
- NIMSI student wins STLE Chicago section award!
- 2 NIMSI HAMMER Faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Yip-Wah Chung to Receive Bunshah Award
2023
- NIMSI Faculty Named Among Global ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ for 2023
- Ian McCue, Ryan Truby Receive DARPA Young Faculty Awards
- Cao wins inaugural Devor-Kapoor Manufacturing Medal
- Ping Guo receives International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) F.W. Taylor Medal
- Jian Cao elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Teri W. Odom elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Jennifer Dunn on the challenges of mining for EV batteries
- Xiao Wang Receives NSF CAREER Award
- John Rogers lab develops first electrotherapy-delivering bioresorbable bandage
- Jennifer Dunn studies ways to reduce reliance on imported graphite
- Mark Hersam named chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- John Rogers develops first smart wearable device to track vocal fatigue
- Christos Dimoulas Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
- Q. Jane Wang Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- Teri Odom Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Cheng Sun Developed a New Strategy to 3D Print Miniature and Disposable Optical Microscopes
- Jian Cao wins 2023 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award
2022
- Ameer & Cao Named 2022 Researchers to Know
- Prof. Kyoo-Chul Kenneth Park's findings could help researchers optimize many environmental processes
- Looking to the Future of Carbon Nanotube Transistors, Mark Hersam
- NIMSI Faculty Named Among Global ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ for 2022
- Prof. Akono Presents at First US-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium
- Why the World is Entering a ‘Phase Change’, Mark Mills
- New NSF-funded center HAMMER will assert American leadership in advanced manufacturing
- Cao, Ehmann and Team win Outstanding Paper Award, NAMRC 2022
- Jian Cao Elected to National Academy of Engineering
2021
- Professor John Rogers receives State of Illinois’ highest honor
- Lynch’s Interest in Immersive Learning Extends to New Dinosaur Card Game
- Scientists Release New AI-based Tools to Accelerate Functional Electronic Materials Discovery
- Ehmann Receives SME’s Taylor Medal
- Akono's Novel smart cement can be used to build more durable roads and cities
- Opinion: Gerber et al., Faculty Should Train Students How to Make Their Ideas Tangible
- Rogers's Dissolving implantable device relieves pain without drugs
- Vinayak Dravid's New ‘Swiss Army knife’ cleans up water pollution
- Mark Hersam receives inaugural Stoddart Award
- New material removes air-borne droplets
- Mechanistic data-driven prediction of as-built mechanical properties in metal AM
- Rogers et al., Smart, dissolving pacemaker communicates with body-area sensor and control network
- Rogers Team Creates Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
- Wei Chen Receives Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award
- Designing the Future: A Technological Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Cleaning up lakes and oceans
- ‘Sweat sticker’ diagnoses cystic fibrosis on the skin in real time
- Colgate Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Dynamic 3D Printing Process Features a Light-driven Twist
- Bonds Acting Like Seat Belts Could Have Wide Implications
2020
- Prof. Jiaxing Huang Named AAAS Fellow
- New approach determines optimal materials designs with minimal data
- Northwestern engineers power futuristic propulsion
- Anti-viral layer attacks respiratory droplets to make mask wearer less infectious
- Nanofountain Probe Electroporation system may lead to quicker and more customized treatment plans
- Northwestern Team Uses Competition Victory to Honor Ted Belytschko
- Nanomaterials Make a Big Leap in Battery Design
- NU Research team led by Prof. Wing K. Liu won Additive Manufacturing Modeling Challenge
- Clinical-grade Wearables Offer Continuous Monitoring for COVID-19
- Direct Solution Processing of Carbon Nanotubes in Solvent Cocktails
- New AI Tool a Potential Timesaver for COVID-19 Researchers
- Printable Biosensors Could Detect Contaminated Fish
- Wearable COVID-19 Sensor Receives NSF RAPID Grant
- New Technique Offers Higher Resolution Molecular Imaging and Analysis
- Smart Sponge Could Clean Up Oil Spills
- UV-resistant elastic for N95 masks receives NSF RAPID grant
- NIMSI Members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Wei Chen Named Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
- MSA Names David Seidman Distinguished Scientist
- Self-sanitizing face mask project receives NSF RAPID grant
- 2020 Ronald P. Harrelson Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers
- Jian Cao won 2020 SME International Honor Award
- ASME Manufacturing Medal named after Kornel F. Ehmann
- Leaf-inspired Surface Prevents Frost Formation
- Data Centers Use Less Energy Than You Think
- New Method Offers More Stable, Efficient Electrocatalytic Reactions
- Espinosa, Nocedal Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Neural Network Predicts Plasticity of Materials