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Northwestern scientists have made key contributions to every major gravitational-wave milestone.

The 2023 landmark Supreme Court decision effectively banning race-conscious affirmative action — along with the subsequent challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion in major corporations and military admissions — has brought back the decades-old argument for “merit-based” or “colorblind” policies.

Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees today announced that Northwestern President Emeritus Henry S. Bienen will serve as interim president, effective Sept. 16, following the announcement last week that President Michael Schill would be stepping down.

Scientists led by Northwestern University and Soochow University in China have built the first perovskite-based detector that can capture individual gamma rays for SPECT imaging with record-breaking precision. The new tool could make common types of nuclear medicine imaging sharper, faster, cheaper and safer.

Northwestern University chemists have unveiled a new type of nanostructure that dramatically improves CRISPR delivery and potentially extends its scope of utility.

Michael Schill announced today that he will step down from the presidency of Northwestern University, concluding a three-year tenure that saw continued ascension across the University’s three campuses, record fundraising and a steady rise in national rankings of the best universities in the country.

Northwestern University physicists are using NVIDIA technology to tackle the computationally demanding tasks hindering quantum research.

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.