2019
Mavis Boamah’s paper on “Energy Conversion via Metal Nanolayers” in PNAS has been covered in the following media outlets:
BBC World Service (live Newsday interview with Lawrence Pollard, aired at 5:25 AM GMT on 28 August 2019) Can rust generate electricity? Scroll to minute 18 or listen to the 5 minute piece below.
Smithsonian Magazine Could a Rusty Bridge Generate Electricity?
BigTenNews Northwestern chemist develops novel method for generating electricity
C&E News Rusty film generates salty shock
Northwestern Now Researchers produce electricity by flowing water over extremely thin layers of metal
The Daily Northwestern
AAAS Eurekaalert
Phys.org
IEEE Spectrum
SpaceDaily
NyTeknik
PC Revue
Solarify
Science Daily
Futurity
Popular Mechanics
TechBriefs
LabManager
AZO Materials
Tech Site
Nanowerk
Yahoo news
SOTT Sign of the Times
Innovazione
UPI
Breitbart News
along with coverage in numerous other outlets and social media posts.
2018
Laura Olenick’s paper on “Lipid Corona Formation from Nanoparticle Interactions with Bilayers” in Chem has been covered in the following media outlets:
National Science Foundation
Eurekaalert
nano-magazine
Longroom
Nanowerk
Northwestern Now
Nanotechnology Now
Science Daily
phys.org
Xinghuanet
China.org
Topix
Infosurhoy
Medicine News Line
Brinkwire
Genesisnanotechnology
Healthnewsinbrief
Technology.org
GIT Laboratory Journal
Genesis nanotech
along with coverage in numerous other outlets.
2015
Jen Achtyl’s Nature Communications paper on what may be the world’s thinnest proton channel was covered in the following media outlets:
C&E News (News of the week)
Chemistry and Industry Magazine
NBC News
C2W
DOE Office of Science
Northwestern University
Nature World News
Times Gazette
International Business Times
Pro-Physik.de
Yibada
American Register
Science Recorder
Delhi Daily News
Tech Times
Eureka-Alert
along with coverage in numerous blogs and other outlets.
2014
Salvo and Geiger’s Nature Geoscience paper on more severe ozone pollution in Sao Paulo with increased use in biofuel was covered in the following news outlets:
Der Spiegel
La Times
Folha Sao Paulo
Scientific American
Nature
Northwestern News Service
Phys.org
Science World Report
Eureka Alert
Reason.com
TG Daily
Agrodigital
Ciencias y cosas
Enjeux energies et environment
along with coverage in beforeitsnews, biomedicine, biofueldigest, clearairpartnership, counselheal, crazychucks, creo, dailyfusion, escience, ethanolinthenews, etopical, feedthegrid, greencarcongress, icct, ideaonline, info, mailtribune, natureasia, nets247, news.com, newser, physicstoday, reason, redorbit, rtcc, sciencedailynews, sciencenewsonline, scienceworldreport, sinc, sugaronline, techinvestornews, technobahn, theblaze, unfoxnews, veooz, and westhawaiitoday.
2013
Geiger’s work with the village of dePue, IL, is highlighted along with that of Amdur Spitz, Associates, Groundswell Educational Films, the Environmental Law Clinic at NU of Nancy Loeb’s, and Teresa Woodruff’s reproductive health center at NU:
UNIVISION piece (en espanol, taken offline as of 2014)
Chicago Tribune
Sarah Moore’s dePue story on the Global Health blog
Northwestern Alumni Magazine
Northwestern University Office of Research Center Piece
2012
Geiger and five NU colleagues named AAAS Fellows
Major Focus on Everyday Nanomaterials in the Environment
by Megan Fellman, Northwestern News Service
Also posted at aznano.com “The A to Z of Nanotechnology”
Read Sean Hargadon’s story about our Environmental Data Mapping Project at the village of DePue, IL in the 2012 Winter Edition of the Northwestern University Magazine
2011
Read Sarah Moore’s interview about our Environmental Data Mapping Project on the Global Health Blog.
2010
National Public Radio “Morning Edition”
Franz comments on a Science paper featured on NPR, by Joe Palca
American Chemical Society
Stephanie Walter and Franz are interviewed for their Perspectives Articles in the brand new Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
2009
Chemical & Engineering News
Geiger group PhD Catherine Schmidt’ work on Art Conversation at the Getty Institute is featured in C&E News – by William Schulz
Chemical & Engineering News and Nature Chemistry
Our work on the concept of atmospheric heterogeneous stereochemistry is featured in C&E News by Mitch Jacobi and in Nature Chemistry by Laura Croft
2008
Northwestern Newsfeed Podcast
“Science and the Presidential Election”
Franz is interviewed by Brendan Cosgrove, Broadcast Associate, Northwestern University Relations
Telluride Science Research Center Interview in Telluride, CO
“Science and the Presidential Election”
Franz gives a talk and is interviewed on the subject by Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director of the TSRC
InTimeTV television interview recorded at the Museum of Broadcast History in downtown Chicago
Making “Sense” of DNA: Franz is interviewed by DR. OGAN GUREL on Nanotech Today
2007
Chemical & Engineering News
Picturing DNA On A Surface, by MITCH JACOBI
2006
Los Angeles Times
They Took Shelter Amid the Poison, by JUDY PASTERNAK
Northwestern Alumni Magazine
Farm Pharmaceuticals Pose Environmental Concern, by SEAN HARGADON
Northwestern Alumni Magazine
Making a Difference, by HEIDI ZHOU
2005
Photonics Spectra Magazine
Photonics Examines Pharmaceuticals at Environmental Interfaces, by ANNE FISCHER
Chemical & Engineering News
Metal Stays Put, by MITCH JACOBI
2004
The Chicago Reader
When a Sticky Pollutant is a Good Pollutant, by HAROLD HENDERSON
Science Magazine
Reduced Mobility, by JAKE YESTON
The Daily Northwestern
Four Students Named Gates Cambridge Scholars, by MARGARET ADSIT
US News and World Report
America’s Best Colleges and Universities Issue 2005, by ALEX KINGSBURY (no link)