The Graduate School - Northwestern University

Message to International Students
"We want to reassure our Chinese students and scholars that they are critical to [our] mission."
Read an important message from Provost Holloway here.
2019 Presidential Fellows
The Presidential Fellowship is a highly competitive fellowship awarded to graduate students.
Congratulations to this year's recipients!
Spring Message from Dean Woodruff
Spring a time to celebrate our graduate community and recognize some of its many accomplishments.
Read more here.

Featured Events

June 17

All Day

Spring Grades Due at 3 p.m.

Spring Degrees Conferred

June 24

All Day

Summer Change of Registration (Drop/Add)/Late registration begins

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Spotlight

Spotlight on Shuhan Fan and Luther Clement-Lam: MFA Graduates in Documentary Media

Julian Kevon Glover is a PhD candidate in the Department of African American Studies at the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Their dissertation is a performance ethnography of the experiences of transgender women in the ballroom scene across Chicago, London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Glover is currently a Franke Fellow at the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and was recently inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Their work appears in various publications, including Harvard Kennedy School’s LGBTQ Policy Journal, American Quarterly, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and Text & Performance Quarterly.

Learn more in our Spotlight Series.

Spotlight

Spotlight on Kaylin McMahon, PhD: Postdoctoral Trainee in Nanotechnology

Kaylin McMahon, PhD, is a postdoctoral trainee in nanotechnology at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Her research involves many disciplines, including biology, chemistry, and materials science, with a focus on designing and synthesizing materials for new diagnostic tests and therapeutics. Kaylin recently co-founded a start-up biotechnology company called Zylem Biosciences, Inc., which aims to perform the complementary work required to move invented therapies from the lab to the clinic.

Learn more in our Spotlight Series.