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Dance Marathon has been giving back for 50 years
March 15, 2024
Northwestern University Dance Marathon returns March 29 to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The event is the culmination of a yearlong fundraising effort to support Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana and the Evanston Community Foundation.
Deborah Cohen named executive director of Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
March 14, 2024
Deborah Cohen, the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been named executive director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.
Northwestern to build new softball stadium
March 13, 2024
Northwestern University’s Big Ten Champion softball program has received a $5 million gift from Northwestern Trustee and former student-athlete Harreld N. “Kip” Kirkpatrick III ’94, ’97 MBA and his wife, Sara Kirkpatrick. The gift will support the construction of a new softball stadium, which will be named Kip and Sara Kirkpatrick Stadium.
March 15: Match Day for Northwestern medical students
March 12, 2024
The Match Day drama for graduating medical students from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine begins at 10:15 a.m. (CT) Friday, March 15. At this annual event, Northwestern students receive the envelopes that reveal where they will train as residents for the next three to seven years.
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Immigrants are significantly less likely to commit crimes than the U.S.-born
March 11, 2024
A study co-led by Northwestern University economist Elisa Jácome provides the first historical comparison of incarceration rates of immigrants to U.S.-born citizens.
In the ICU, what is a good death?
March 11, 2024
What is a good death for a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)? The answer to that question may depend on whether you ask a family member of a patient or the physician, who are not necessarily aligned.
Shape-shifting ultrasound stickers detect post-surgical complications
March 7, 2024
Researchers have developed a new, first-of-its-kind sticker that enables clinicians to monitor the health of patients’ organs and deep tissues with a simple ultrasound device.
These workers can be pivotal in improving U.S. health equity
March 6, 2024
Scientists from Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania have — for the first time — studied community health worker programs on a national scale to assess what barriers these programs might face when implemented broadly.
Children born with HIV surpass a year of remission after pausing treatment
March 6, 2024
Four children who acquired HIV in utero have remained free of detectable HIV for more than one year, according to new findings that were presented today, March 6, at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Denver, Colo.
Northwestern receives $10 million gift to foster collaboration in social sciences and global studies research
March 5, 2024
Northwestern University Trustee Steven A. Cahillane and Tracy Tappan Cahillane have made a $10 million gift toward the renovation of the Donald P. Jacobs Center on the University’s Evanston campus, kick-starting a plan to turn the building into a hub for research, learning and student activity.