At 76, Chinese dance instructor lives her passion and passes it on
By Dena Khalafallah and Tiffany Chen Medill Reports At 11 years old, Jin Qui Yue discovered her passion for dance and has followed it throughout
Northwestern’s solar-powered house heads to the Solar Decathlon in Denver
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran The house came down piece by numbered piece. In mid-September, the House by Northwestern (HBN) team dismantled the entire home they built over
NU symposium honors chemist Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff who helped win World War II
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran Chemists Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff and Herman Pines, both immigrants to America, put their brilliant minds to work creating a special aviation fuel,
Build a better planet one photo at a time – Add yours to the global view
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran “Think of how it wraps completely around our planet, connecting us all as one global family – living and breathing under one
Video Assistant Referee makes full MLS debut
By Sye Bennefield Jr. On Tuesday night during the 2017 MLS Homegrown match, viewers at home and on hand had the opportunity to witness the
MLS and La Liga stars hit the beach
By Sye Bennefield Jr. Imagine a Copa Del Rey Champion, a World Cup winner, a MLS Cup Champion and a Gold Cup Champion having a
Freeze-casting materials in space: Meeting the challenges of vacuums and microgravity
Northwestern University’s SpaceICE team, led by Northwestern Professor David Dunand, is preparing to test freeze-casting of materials in space, in collaboration with the University of
Severe storms lab developing remote flash flood sensing system
By Puja Bhattacharjee Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, the oldest church camp in Oklahoma, hosts more than 50,000 kids and teens who come for summer
Saint John the Baptist gets a makeover at the Art Institute
By Puja Bhattacharjee A newly restored “Scenes from the life of Saint John the Baptist” by Bartolommeo di Giovanni is among the paintings and objects
After-school program teaches native children their heritage
By Jiayan Jenny Shi Kelly Summers, 44, is a Chicago-born Native American who volunteers with Native Scholars, an after-school tutoring program at the American Indian Association of
Building a better tornado warning system
By Puja Bhattacharjee People start trickling into the National Severe Storms Laboratory holding coffee cups and laptops. By 8 a.m., eight people fill a room
Making materials in space – freeze it first
This summer a team of Northwestern University undergraduates will finalize instrumentation designs for a NASA satellite mission that will test the manufacturing of materials while in