With its ability to improve neuron health, experimental drug NU-9 has already shown promise in reversing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Now, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) …
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Scientists at Northwestern and Case Western Reserve universities have developed the first polymer-based therapeutic for Huntington’s disease, an incurable, debilitating illness that causes nerve cells to break down in the brain.
Patients with Huntington’s disease have a genetic mutation that …
If you’ve ever experienced a dream while knowing that you were dreaming, you’ve had a lucid dream. As interest has grown in optimizing sleep for self-improvement and better health, so, too, has interest in lucid dreaming, which early evidence has …
Northwestern University astrophysicist Allison Strom has received a 2024 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue innovative and experimental research.
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Rachel Jamison Webster‘s book Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family (Henry Holt, March 2023)—a book of creative nonfiction that explores ancestry, race, gender, and justice in American history – was chosen as a Best Book …
68th U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver the 35th Annual Leopold Lecture presenting his talk, “Geopolitics and Global Business: Navigating the Future.” The lecture will be held on Tuesday, October 22, from 5 – 6 pm at Cahn …
SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution.
A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received a $20 million grant to develop and apply new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to astrophysics research and deep space …
Meet Russell Kahn, who graduated from Northwestern University in 2016.
What inspired you to pursue study in the American Studies Program?
During the Spring of my Freshman year at Northwestern I begged Professor Sarah McFarland Taylor to let me into …
Throughout its 50 years, Northwestern University’s American Studies Program has been a lively example of interdisciplinary study, intellectual curiosity, and scholarly camaraderie.
Carl Smith would love to cite some grand, elaborate plan behind the formation of Northwestern University’s American Studies …
Please welcome the 29 new faculty of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year of 2024-2025!…