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Globe on a table with three wooden blocks that read environmental, social, and governance

Alumni and Students, Faculty, Research May 29, 2025

Passion for the planet: A new generation of environmental stewards starts here

Over the last two decades, the Weinberg College-housed Program in Environmental Policy and Culture (EPC) at Northwestern has embraced the humanities and social sciences and cultivated a new generation of environmental stewards.

Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Fiona Lenth describes …

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Art works in studio, centered is sculpture of human body photo by Photo by Lane Relyea

Alumni and Students May 23, 2025

Senior art exhibition spotlights new techniques, artistic growth and community

Peristeronic, meaning “of or relating to pigeons,” may have fallen out of common use, but to the 10 artists in the exhibition opening May 22 at Dittmar Gallery, the term suggests a reverent irreverence.

Lucie Paul, one of the featured

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Hillel student executive board members huddled together and smiling

Alumni and Students, Faculty May 20, 2025

Northwestern receives gift to enhance Jewish studies and student experience

Northwestern University has received a generous gift from an anonymous donor to support the Jewish studies program and enhance activities for Jewish student life. The gift will enable the University to increase its undergraduate course offerings and to bolster activities

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vintage 1970 photo of woeman sitting at rows of analog type of workstations

Alumni and Students, Research May 20, 2025

The real beneficiaries of protective labor laws for women

During the first half of the 20th century, many states passed labor laws in response to the influx of women into the modern workplace. The so-called protective labor laws enacted by U.S. states restricted women’s economic opportunities through maximum hours

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Students walking on Northwestern campus

Faculty, Research May 16, 2025

Northwestern receives $25 million gift to advance adolescent mental health research

New institute will study psychology of emerging adults, leading to innovative wellness programming for students at the University and beyond

Northwestern University is launching the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being, an interdisciplinary initiative to research issues related to

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Artist bree gant at work on papers spread on table

Alumni and Students May 14, 2025

MFA graduate bree gant on how several mediums shape her artistic practice

bree gant is in her studio in Locy Hall writing. Her words flow horizontally across the page, wrapping left to right down the page. Like movements in a dance sequence, the word order changes slightly with each repetition, creating subtle

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Micrographs of human neurons exposed to amyloid-beta proteins and either left untreated (left side of photo, neurons are tiny and red, widely dispersed) or treated with the new nanotherapy developed at Northwestern (right side of photo, neurons are larger, green, more plentiful). Dead neurons are stained in red; live neurons are green.

Faculty, Research May 14, 2025

Sugar-Coated Nanotherapy Dramatically Improves Neuron Survival in Alzheimer’s Model

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new approach that directly combats the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

In these devastating illnesses, proteins misfold and clump together around brain cells, which ultimately leads

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(left) Rachel C. Zhang and (right) Jane Clarke

Alumni and Students, Awards and Honors May 2, 2025

Two Named Gates Cambridge Scholars, Will Study History and Machine Learning

Jane Clarke ’24 and Rachel C. Zhang ’24 MS have received 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholarships.

Now celebrating its 25th year, the program identifies academically outstanding social leaders to pursue postgraduate study and research at the University of Cambridge. Established in

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nerve cell closeup

Faculty, Research April 28, 2025

First Synthetic ‘Mini Prion’ Shows How Protein Misfolding Multiplies

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks into strands (or fibrils) of misfolded tau proteins, which then

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plastic heart model showing painted veins and muscles

Faculty, Research April 25, 2025

Systemically Injectable Therapy Could Prevent Heart Failure After a Heart Attack

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California San Diego have developed a new, potent injectable therapy that can protect the heart from damage after a heart attack.

The therapeutic approach comprises specially designed polymers that act like proteins. These

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(left) Rachel C. Zhang and (right) Jane Clarke

May 2, 2025

Two Named Gates Cambridge Scholars, Will Study History and Machine Learning


Ethan Barnes

April 24, 2025

Northwestern Student Ethan Barnes Named a Truman Scholar


JK Anowe and Devika Ranjan

April 9, 2025

Two Northwestern students receive Soros Fellowships for New Americans


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Moon or planet colony and rockets

January 13, 2025

Embracing Uncertainty, From Economic Policy To Space Colonization


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December 17, 2024

10 Books From 2024 To Add To Your Reading List


Rachel Webster

October 10, 2024

Rachel Jamison Webster’s book “Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family” was chosen as a Best Book by The New Yorker


In the Media

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March 18, 2025

Adopting Zero-Emission Trucks and Buses Could Save Lives, Prevent Asthma in Illinois


two hands breaking nuclear missile in half

March 12, 2025

City Leaders Speak Out Against Nuclear Weapons


One image of man in sweater, second image of man in armor deepfaked by AI

October 24, 2024

Don’t Be Duped: Here’s How to Spot Deepfakes


COVID-19 Research

April 19, 2023

Political scientist James Druckman discusses takeaways of state-by-state polling during the pandemic


Fluorescent images of human neurons

January 17, 2023

Researchers create mature neurons from human cells, opening new possibilities for treatments


person getting a booster shot

January 3, 2023

Survey shows that many Americans have not received the latest COVID booster


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