Upcoming Events
Apr 21
2026
AI & Innovation Speaker Series - Zoë Hitzig
(Anthropic & Harvard Society of Fellows)
How People Use ChatGPT
1:30pm-2:45pm
Room: 5101 KGH
Zoom Link: Coming Soon
May 5
2026
AI & Innovation Speaker Series - Allison Koenecke
(Cornell Tech)
Algorithmic Decisions in the SNAP Benefits Pipeline
1:30pm-2:45pm
Room: 5101 KGH
Zoom Link: Coming Soon
May 19
2026
AI & Innovation Speaker Series - Samuel Goldberg
(Standford Graduate School of Business)
Generative AI & Creative Goods: Market Expansion, Crowd-out, and Copyright
1:30pm-2:45pm
Room: 5101 KGH
Zoom Link: Coming Soon
Jun 2
2026
AI & Innovation Speaker Series - Pat Pataranutaporn
(MIT)
Cyborg Psychology: Inventing, Investigating, and Inspiring Human-AI Systems for Human Flourishing
1:30pm-2:45pm
Room: 5101 KGH
Zoom Link: Coming Soon
Recorded Events
News
March 2, 2026
AI is already taking jobs, but that is only one facet of its complex economic effects. Price dynamics and bottlenecks indicate that automation could be good news for workers — but only if it vastly outperforms them.
February 17, 2026
The Trump administration’s hostility to science is real, but it isn’t matched by the rest of the GOP’s.
February 12, 2026
But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited with the help of a chatbot.
February 11, 2026
Large language models are surprisingly good at recognizing empathic communication—and can teach people how to better connect with others.
January 15, 2026
This year’s budget will probably restore much of what the White House sought to eliminate
January 13, 2026
Studies aiming to maximize human creativity demonstrate that people work best when buoyed up by others who show them new ways to innovate.
January 9, 2026
Especially if your goal is to start a remarkably successful company.
January 1, 2026
A classroom experiment shows why you shouldn’t short-circuit the brainstorming process
November 1, 2025
Looking at strengths and weaknesses in assessing studies — and some of the most-cited work
October 23, 2025
This may be the toughest season yet for contestants on the entrepreneurial show.
October 17, 2025
At a recent tech event, the Amazon founder riffed on his approach to finding and executing on big breakthroughs.
October 7, 2025
The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.
October 7, 2025
Scientists who receive the Nobel Prize and other accolades do more-novel work both before and after winning, new research finds
October 1, 2025
A tool called Funding the Frontier visualizes all the downstream impacts of funding — and predicts which studies will have the biggest societal impact.
September 26, 2025
Researchers use the tools of epidemiology to trace how false tales spread from place to place, and provoked a revolt
September 18, 2025
August 25, 2025
Funders test algorithms to spot promising science, raising hopes of faster reviews—and fears of bias
July 24, 2025
A large study finds that there’s a trade-off. While tenured researchers may publish less, they often come up with more novel ideas.
June 25, 2025
"This is really a universal pattern that appears very widespread across science and technology—across different fields, research outcomes, career stages, and team sizes,"
June 4, 2025
Matt Groh and his colleagues at Northwestern University came up with an online test to see how skilled consumers are at spotting deepfakes. The results suggest people are getting better at deciphering real versus fake.
June 1, 2025
Teams that acquire players from their competitors gain an advantage that goes beyond pure skill.
May 28, 2025
The human brain isn’t great at spotting AI images, but a few easy steps can make you much better at identifying fakes.
May 28, 2025
“It's not like we can't enter a new area and hit a home run, but there’s just a far, far lower chance of that happening.”
May 1, 2025
For the most part, yes! And the more we look, the better we get.
April 24, 2025
But there’s little common ground in the research that Republicans and Democrats cite.
April 21, 2025
The Academy recognizes leaders across disciplines, professions, and perspectives
March 31, 2025
Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy
January 1, 2025
Researchers are rewarded for being the first to discover and publish new findings. But the incentives can come at a cost.
September 6, 2023
The Ryan Institute on Complexity is set to launch at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, looking to break new ground in the application of artificial intelligence on business.
September 6, 2023
The Ryan Institute on Complexity, made possible by a gift from the Ryan Family Foundation, will harness the power of big data and artificial intelligence.
September 6, 2023
Kellogg School of Management announced a pioneering new institute to tackle the most complex questions in business and society.