NIMSI Student Carter Taylor awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. 

Tao Sun Quantifyies Dislocation Formation in 3D-Printed Metals

New study tracks crystallographic defect evolution in real time during metal additive manufacturing

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2025 

• McCue Participating in Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
• John Rogers Elected to the Royal Society
• Espinosa Develops New Machine Learning Framework Enables Data-Efficient Design of Advanced Metamaterials
• Cao earns the inaugural Crown/IIP-Seed Award
• Espinosa Named to National Academy of Inventors
• Prof. Ping Guo unlocks opportunities for advanced manufacturing – and more

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

2019

• Watching Materials Crystallize
• Kung, Odom Awarded American Chemical Society National Awards
• Liu and Wertheim Honored with Presidential Early Career Awards
• Jian Cao Named Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow