Departments and Programs
- African Studies
- African American Studies
- African and Asian Languages
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Applied Physics, graduate program
- Art History
- Art Theory and Practice
- Asian American Studies
- Asian and Middle East Studies
- Astronomy
- Biological Sciences
- Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
- British Studies, graduate cluster
- Business Institutions
(Harvey Kapnick Business Institutions Program) - Chemistry
- Chicago Field Studies
- Classics
- Cognitive Science
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Computer Science
- Critical Theory
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Economics
- English
- Environmental Policy and Culture
- Environmental Sciences
- French and Italian
- Gender Studies
- Geography
- German Language and Literature
- Global Health
- History
- Honors Program in Medical Education (HPME)
- Integrated Science Program
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program (IBiS), graduate program
- International and Area Studies
- International Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Latina/o Studies
- Legal Studies
- Linguistics
- Materials Science
- Mathematical Experience for Northwestern Undergrads (MENU)
- Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS)
- Mathematics
- Molecular Biosciences (formerly BMBCB)
- Neurobiology
- Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN), graduate program
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy
- Plant Biology and Conservation, graduate program
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Science in Human Culture
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Sociology
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Statistics
- Urban Studies
- Writing Program
Centers and Institutes
- African Studies
- Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
- Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies (BCICS)
- Center for African American History
- Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
- Center for Cell and Developmental Systems Biology (CDSB)
- Center for Historical Studies (Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies)
- Center for Structural Biology
- Center for the Study of Industrial Organization
- Center for the Writing Arts
- Ethnographic Field School
- French Interdisciplinary Group
- Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)
- Institute for Policy Research
- International Program Development
- Interdisciplinary Center on the Science of Diversity
- Interdisciplinary Committee on Evolutionary Processes
- Multimedia Learning Center
- Paris Program
- Searle Center for Teaching Excellence
- Study Abroad
- Transportation Center
Recent Weinberg News
Honors and Achievements
Professor Tobin Marks, a world leader in organometallic chemistry, chemical catalysis, materials science, organic electronics, solar energy, photovoltaics and nanotechnology, received the 2012 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences.
Weinberg professor Kenneth Seeskin has won the National Jewish Book Award. The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, co-edited by Seeskin, received first place in the anthologies and collections category.
Mentions in the Media
The Life, Work of Poet Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska's longtime translator, Slavic languages and comparative literature professor Clare Cavanagh, speaks with PBS Newshour about the poet's life and work. Szymborska was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996. pbs.org February 2, 2012 Full story
Fingerprints of a Monster Quake
How to plan for earthquakes if seismic activity wanders around the map? ... Northwestern University geophysicist Seth Stein argues that there won't be any future earthquakes at New Madrid. He has gathered GPS data that show no pressure developing in the Earth's surface there; hence, he argues, no energy is building for a convulsion. He believes mid-continent seismicity moves around, so that as the New Madrid zone "turns off," future quakes may happen elsewhere. washingtonpost.com January 10, 2012 Full story
