Cate Brinson, Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Engineering and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Dirk Brockmann will receive the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics from the Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division of the German Physical Society.
It’s been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s been used to find latent blood stains in crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to exam the thinnest material in the world.
A Northwestern University study shows that coupling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and thus vivid image contrast.