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Optimizing A Faster, Smarter, and Easier World
Big data plus increasing computational power empower researchers to use optimization algorithms to build a better world on a grander scale.
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A Race Against Time: Developing Diagnostics For The Developing World
The Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies tailors medical diagnostics to meet life or death challenges in the developing world.
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Startups Grow Up: Success Stories From The Front
Post graduation, these Northwestern Engineering alumni and their startups continue to make a positive impact in health, education, technology, and advertising.
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Flexible Thinking, Expansive Ideas
Professor John Rogers bends historically rigid ideas about electronics to create new medical monitoring and treatment devices that flex and stretch with the human body.
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Five Things We Can Do To Be Cybersecure
How secure are you online? Professor Yan Chen Suggests five behaviors that can help make you more cybersecure.
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Data Diving To Save Coral
New tools could play important role in the race to save coral reefs from climate change.
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A Winding Road To Success
Entrepreneur David Pessis (MSIT '09) juggled graduate studies and a startup launch before helping guide PointDrive to a successful acquisition.
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At Play In The Space Between Digital and Real
With a passion for tangible digital design, Felix Hu ('14) moves from research to reality with a game that teaches kids to code.
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Shaping The Future of Materials Technology
At Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Charlie Kuehmann (PhD '94) is driving materials engineering into the future.
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Invested In Technology
Venture capitalist and telecommunications pioneer Priscilla Lu (PhD '80) is advancing innovations in China's health care technology and clean tech sectors.
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Of Ales, Porters, and Stouts
Dave Burns ('95, MS '96, and Kellogg '02) drives Lake Bluff Brewing from personal vision to award-winning enterprise.