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Former NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg to headline Leopold Lecture
October 7, 2025
Nina Totenberg, veteran legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio, will be the featured speaker for Northwestern University’s 36th annual Leopold Lecture.
Totenberg will reflect on the U.S. Supreme Court, top legal issues affecting everyday Americans and the important cases being considered by the court.
Dunbar Early Music Festival returns to Bienen School
October 6, 2025
The Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival celebrates Renaissance composers John Dowland and Orlando Gibbons through lectures, concerts, a master class and special performances by internationally acclaimed artists and Bienen students.

New tools boost how often pediatricians suggest early peanut introduction to infants
October 6, 2025
A few easy-to-implement tools — a training video, electronic health record prompts and handouts for families — greatly increased how often pediatricians recommended early peanut introduction to infants, reports a new clinical study led by Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Molecular coating cleans up noisy quantum light
October 3, 2025
Northwestern University engineers have developed a novel strategy that makes quantum light sources, which dispense single photons, more consistent, precise and reliable.

Biochemist who discovered GLP-1 named winner of 2026 Kimberly Prize
October 3, 2025
Svetlana Mojsov received this year's Kimberly Prize for her discovery of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), an incretin hormone produced by gut tissue that plays a key role in insulin secretion and glucose metabolism. Her work has been translated into widely used treatments for diabetes and weight loss.

Dark universe and Rubin Observatory will be explored in public lecture
September 29, 2025
Christopher W. Stubbs, an astronomer and experimental physicist at Harvard University, will deliver the 2025 CIERA Annual Public Lecture at Northwestern University this week. During his 90-minute talk, Stubbs will discuss new information hidden within the unprecedented amount of data flowing from the recently launched Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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Nearly everyone has at least one risk factor before a heart attack, stroke or heart failure
September 29, 2025
More than 99% of people who went on to suffer a heart attack, stroke or heart failure already had at least one risk factor above optimal level beforehand, reports a large-scale study led by Northwestern Medicine and Yonsei University in South Korea.

Uri Wilensky named 2025 Yidan Prize winner
September 29, 2025
Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) professor Uri Wilensky, a preeminent scholar in computer modeling and simulations, has been awarded the 2025 Yidan Prize for Education Research. The Yidan Prize is the world’s largest prize in education.

Medicaid billed for 52% of U.S. hospital costs from gun injuries
September 26, 2025
The initial hospital treatment of firearm injuries cost the U.S. health care system an estimated $7.7 billion between 2016 and 2021, with the largest share falling on urban trauma center hospitals that serve the highest proportion of Medicaid patients, reports a new study led by Northwestern Medicine and the University of Michigan.

Too heavy for medical care: Over 40% of specialty clinics turn away patients weighing 465 pounds
September 24, 2025
Patients weighing 450 pounds or more face barriers and discrimination when scheduling or attending doctor visits at subspecialty practices, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.