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Danceworks, the annual celebration of movement and contemporary dance is back on-stage at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Danceworks 2023: Nostalgia for the Night” will take place one weekend only, March 3-5, at the Josephine Louis Theater, 20 Arts Circle Drive on the Evanston campus.

Political scientist Alvin B. Tillery Jr., director of the Center of Diversity and Democracy at Northwestern University is available for comment on the speech.
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Researchers have, for the first time, deciphered the metabolic mechanisms that enable C. testosteroni to digest the seemingly undigestible. This new information could potentially lead to novel biotechnology platforms that harness the bacteria to help recycle plastic waste.

In his SLIPPAGE lab at Northwestern, Tommy DeFrantz takes an innovative and interdisciplinary approach as he explores connections among performance, history, theatre and emergent technology.

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center for International Human Rights will award its eighth Global Jurist of the Year Award to Guatemalan judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez.

Decades after hiring discrimination was made illegal in many Western countries, experts predicted it would gradually disappear. But according to a major new meta-analysis from Northwestern University, discrimination in hiring has remained a persistent problem. In fact, with few exceptions, rates of hiring discrimination have changed little since the 1990s.

A new way to significantly increase the potency of almost any vaccine has been developed by researchers from the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern.

Using observations collected over the past 12 years, a Northwestern University astrophysicist assembled a time lapse video of four exoplanets orbiting around star HR8799.

Northwestern University experts in psychiatry and pediatrics caution people against watching the police body-cam footage released today of the October, 2022, attack on Paul Pelosi in his San Francisco home and the yet-to-be-released footage of Tyre Nichols’ attack in Memphis from earlier this month.
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Robleto served as an artist-at-large at the McCormick School of Engineering. This unique program partnership between The Block Museum and McCormick gave the artist an open “hall pass” to learn from, collaborate with and question scientists, engineers and experts from across the University. The five-year residency concludes with the exhibition “The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto.”