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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.

Earthquake studyStudents 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.

From the Dean's Office

Student Research Experiences

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:

Facets of Weinberg

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.

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Class of 2014

We've gathered essential information for incoming freshmen about placement and credit, first-year courses and advising.

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Alumni and Friends

Catch up on major Weinberg events and alumni profiles in Crosscurrents, the College's magazine of arts and sciences:

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Graduates and Parents

Weinberg College congratulates its Class of 2010. View recordings from the ceremony and order graduation photos.

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July 29, 2010