New Arsenic-Based Nanoparticle Blocks Aggressive Breast Cancer

Chemistry professor Tom O'Halloran co-led an effort that took a drug therapy proven for blood cancers but ineffective against solid tumors, packaged it with nanotechnology, and got it to combat an aggressive type of breast cancer prevalent in young women, particularly young African-American women.

Students Scout Farmland as National Earthquake Study Comes to Illinois

A Weinberg undergraduate student and a PhD candidate in Earth and planetary sciences on a summer-long road trip across northern and central Illinois are about to start knocking on farmers' and landowners' doors in their search for secluded places to build seismic stations. VIDEO

English Professor Revisits Civil War Diary

In Julia Stern's new book, Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic, she argues that Mary Chesnut's revised diary offers the most trenchant literary account of race and slavery until the work of William Faulkner.

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Weinberg Globetrotters Share Summer Research Experiences -- as They Unfold

Travel with four Weinberg undergraduates as they blog their way around the world, thanks to research grants awarded by Northwestern University:

• The World is a Book: Turning a Page in Kigali -- An English and African studies major travels to Rwanda to develop an English language curriculum.
• The Beat of the World: Meixi Circumnavigates the Globe -- A Weinberg junior visits six countries to study schools that focus on "transformative" education.
• Dimashq: City of Old, City Untold -- A senior is immersed in Damascus, called the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
• Fit for Consumption -- A Slavic Studies and French major strictly curtails speaking English while spending two months in Moscow.

Get a video glimpse of Weinberg's outstanding curriculum, our world of research and outreach opportunities, our campus and surrounding community, and our 158 years of history and tradition.