Two Weinberg faculty have been named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows by @guggfellows.bsky.social — selected from nearly 5,000 applicants based on prior achievement and exceptional promise. 🎉
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Insects are cold-blooded. They can't generate body heat. Except — one can. Northwestern researchers just sequenced the snow fly's genome and found it doing something scientists didn't think insects were capable of.
🔗 More on this intriguing insect: bit.ly/47A9zyn
The teenage brain isn't missing anything. It's overflowing with possibility. 🧠
This Mental Health Awareness Month, learn from the researchers leading the Weinberg institute dedicated to helping adolescents flourish: Vijay Mittal (@vijayamittal.bsky.social) and Renee Engeln.
Steve Reinke, professor of art theory and practice, was recognized in film-video. Known for his monologue-based video essays, his work is held in the collections of the MoMA, @centrepompidou.bsky.social & @macba.cat. 🎥
As SCOTUS prepares to hear arguments Wed. 4/1 in Trump v. Barbara, a new op-ed co-written by Northwestern historian Kate Masur revisits what the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause meant to those who wrote it — and how that history may inform the Court's decision. ⚖️
Sera Young (@profserayoung.bsky.social), professor of anthropology and global health, was recognized in geography and environmental studies. She developed water insecurity scales now used in 90+ countries by 100+ governmental, research, and policy organizations. 💧
“We’ve all seen ‘Earthrise’ and the ‘Blue Marble’ images a zillion times...” says environmental historian Keith Woodhouse.
Perhaps the new Artemis images have re-energized us.
“It’s hard not to think about the fragility of planet Earth when you see those photos.” 🌎
#EarthDay
Read the full story: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/4/two-northwestern-faculty-named-2026-guggenheim-fellows
Weinberg College professors Carole LaBonne & Matt Goldrick were just elected Lifetime Fellows of #AAAS! 👏
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4sgKuA8
Congratulations to @labonnelab.bsky.social @mattgoldrick.bsky.social 🎉
Leaders of new institute for adolescent mental health on how we embrace developing brains
“From the start, birthright citizenship was understood as a vehicle by which ‘all persons’ born” in the United States, write Martha S. Jones and Kate Masur, “would become full members of a newly remade democracy.”
The framers of the 14th Amendment endorsed a capacious definition of ‘American.’
Join us in congratulating the new 2025 AAAS Fellows class! This distinction is among the highest in the scientific community and honors scientists, engineers, and innovators whose efforts on behalf of science and its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished. https://bit.ly/4svrgaB
American Association for the Advancement of Science
“What’s been fascinating about Artemis II is that we’ve seen many of these overarching narratives about spaceflight return—how space exploration helps us understand how we’re connected, how we share the planet, how beautiful but vulnerable our planet is,” says space historian Teasel Muir-Harmony
Fresh takes on Apollo’s famous “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” images showed off our planet’s beauty just weeks before Earth Day
