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Northwestern University Trustee Jennifer Leischner Litowitz ’91 and Alec Litowitz (’22, ’27 P) have made a $20 million gift in support of the Center for Enlightened Disagreement to accelerate the University’s impact on promoting constructive engagement and discourse in an increasingly polarized world.

A common soil bacterium completely reorganizes its metabolism to thrive on these lignin, the tough, woody material that gives plants their rigidity.

This fall, Northwestern University’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts in Chicago will present three bold and genre-defying productions. The season kicks off with a cutting-edge symposium on technology and contemporary performance, followed by a poignant exploration of Black masculinity. The season concludes with a visually stunning theatrical work that blends puppetry, music and poetry to illuminate an artist’s spiritual awakening in 19th-century Ukraine.

Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can drastically reduce — or perhaps even fully bypass — the laborious chore of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste.

Black adults in the U.S. are first hospitalized for heart failure nearly 14 years earlier than white adults, reports a Northwestern Medicine study that analyzed data from more than 42,000 patients across hundreds of hospitals nationwide.

New study tracked eight bumble bee species in the wild across eight years. Bee species occupy two distinct diet groups: one prefers protein and another prefers fat and carbs.

Developmental scientists and medical social science experts at Northwestern University have spearheaded the creation of the most recent NIH Toolbox, providing the newest nationally standardized assessment of cognitive, language, motor and social-emotional skill development in infants aged 16 days to 42 months.

Children residing in “very low-opportunity” neighborhoods are up to 20 times more likely to be hospitalized for gun injuries than those living in the most advantaged areas, reports a new multi-state study led by Northwestern Medicine.

Newly detected fast radio burst (FRB) is one of the brightest ever observed. Astronomers used the CHIME telescope array to triangulate the burst’s location. FRB traced to the outskirts of a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy using powerful optical telescopes. Location is accurate within just 42 light years, the most precise localization yet for a non-repeating FRB.

In the years leading up to a Trump second term, former congresswoman Liz Cheney found herself at the center of a political divide. Her actions during her last term in Congress posed new questions about the future of the American two-party system.
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