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Northwestern University has announced gifts from a group of donors totaling more than $145 million to advance the University’s vision for the future of engineering. These philanthropic commitments will support the strategic priorities of Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering, which include growing faculty in key departments, expanding facilities to accelerate research and developing advanced curriculum for future engineers.

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a rapid test for tuberculosis that can test tongue swabs and have results in 20 minutes.

Researchers analyzed public comments submitted to the EPA during the development of new emissions standards. EPA responded to more comments emphasizing costs and implementation timelines than those related to environment, climate and public health benefits.

One hundred years ago, Northwestern University planted its flag in Chicago by founding its Streeterville campus. Northwestern Pritzker School of Law will celebrate the milestone with leaders of Chicago’s academic, business and civic communities as they discuss investment, collaboration and what’s next for the city.
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Losing a job can be a life-shattering experience. And when depression complicates a job search, unemployment can become a vicious cycle. Now, a Northwestern University-led clinical trial suggests a new intervention may break that cycle: a phone app, named DRIVEN, that combines weekly self-guided mental health exercises (to reduce stress and increase motivation) with job-seeking strategies.

A class of blood pressure medications may improve a widely used treatment for ulcerative colitis, the most common type of inflammatory bowel disease, suggests a new study, led by Northwestern Medicine and Kiel University in Germany, of thousands of patients with the disease.

The surge in votes cast in the Nov. 3 midterms for Democratic candidates resulted in a surprising number of flipped seats at all levels of government, even those consistently held by Republicans for decades. Northwestern Now queried a cross-section of faculty for their perspectives on what happened, why and what’s next.

Nearly 30 years after the ABC sitcom “Ellen” made history with the first televised coming-out story, Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music is revisiting that cultural moment through Matthew Recio’s opera “The Puppy Episode.” Set in the mid-1990s, “The Puppy Episode” follows three interconnected characters navigating their identities at a time when LGBTQ+ stories were rarely portrayed in mainstream media.

New Northwestern-led, clinical-trial research published in the New England Journal of Medicine found experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide led participants to lose up to 25% of their body weight; about two-thirds experienced at least a 50% reduction in knee pain.

New 3D printing method combines speed, precision and the ability to print a wide range of functional materials