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Kyle Stephan has been appointed Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. She will begin her tenure in August 2025

Northwestern University health economist and policy researcher Lindsay Allen is available to speak to media about ongoing discussions in Congress related to Medicaid work requirements
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EVANSTON, Ill. --- History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, following the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the Reconstruction Era saw unchecked violence against Black Americans, and after the women’s suffrage movement secured the rights of women to vote, anti-suffrage propaganda dominated the conversation for much of the early 20th century.
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Researchers at Northwestern University have expanded the potential of carbon capture technology that plucks CO2 directly from the air by demonstrating that there are multiple suitable and abundant materials that can facilitate direct air capture.

In a new study, scientists constructed the ancestry of corpse flowers living in collections at institutions and gardens around the world. They found a severe lack of consistent, standardized data. Without complete historical records, conservationists were unable to make informed decisions about breeding. Of the corpse flowers studied, therefore, 24% were clones and 27% were offspring from two closely related individuals.

The Institute for New Music at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music hosts its biennial Northwestern University New Music Conference (NUNC! 6) from Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. One of the leading new music conferences in the world, the event welcomes composers, performing musicians, scholars and other new music advocates for workshops, panel discussions and concerts.

The technology described uses a nanomechanical platform and tiny cantilevers to detect multiple HIV antigens at high sensitivity in a matter of minutes. These silicon cantilevers are cheap and easy to mass produce and can be readily equipped with a digital readout. Built into a solar-powered device, this technology could be taken to hard-to-reach parts of the world where early detection remains a challenge to deliver fast interventions to vulnerable populations without waiting for a lab.

Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe — and be non-invasively injected into the body. Smaller than a single grain of rice, the pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible, wireless, wearable device that mounts onto a patient’s chest to control pacing.

A person’s level of political engagement can be informed by myriad factors, from education to environment. Now, a new study — published in the journal Brain and led by Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab — has for the first time identified which parts of the brain regulate political passion.

EVANSTON, Ill. --- As the ban deadline approaches, the fate of TikTok remains uncertain. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January that ByteDance — TikTok’s China-based parent company — had to sell the popular app to an American company by Jan. 19. On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he delayed the ban through executive order to April 5.
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