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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.
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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.
2026 Kimberly Prize winner Svetlana Mojsov

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.
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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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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.
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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.
Experts available on acetaminophen-autism claim

Tylenol and autism claims: ‘Cherry-picking facts without good science does more harm’

September 22, 2025
Developmental pediatric experts at Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago are available to speak to reporters who are covering the Trump administration’s assertion that there is a link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism, saying the claim “doesn’t stand on good science.”
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Republicans fund science more than Democrats, study finds

September 18, 2025
A new Northwestern University study analyzing public records maintained by the U.S. Government Publishing Office and Congressional Budget Office over a 40-year period showed that federal science and research accounts received more funding when Republicans controlled the U.S. House of Representatives and the presidency, as opposed to their Democratic counterparts.