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Raphael Bostic, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will deliver the 2022 Fall Distinguished Public Policy Lecture at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research (IPR) on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, at 3 p.m. CDT. The lecture is cosponsored with the Public Action and the Social Compact (PACT) program in the Kellogg School of Management and will cover the battle against inflation.
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Pregnant people who had bigger fluctuations in stress from one moment to the next—also called lability—had infants with more fear, sadness and distress at three months old than mothers with less stress variability, reports a new Northwestern University study.

Northwestern University's Dr. Clyde Yancy is available to comment on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recent announcement that the U.S. life expectancy fell to its lowest in decades, dropping to 76.1 years in 2021—the lowest it has been since 1996—from 77 years in 2020.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will visit Northwestern Pritzker School of Law as the Howard J. Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar on Wednesday, Sept. 14, and participate in a moderated discussion with Law School Dean Hari M. Osofsky.
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In a post-Roe world in which abortion is criminalized, what kind of ethical and legal obligations might emergency department clinicians face for caring for patients who come in with complications from their self-managed abortions?
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Faculty offer thoughts on the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet leader.

The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University will present “Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s –1980s,” Sept. 22 to Dec. 4, 2022. The exhibition features mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia and the Arab diaspora work from the renowned Barjeel Art Foundation collection. The Block Museum is the final stop of a five-city U.S. exhibition tour.

Yarrow Axford, an expert on Greenland's climate history, is available to discuss new findings that show Greenland's melting ice sheet will cause global sea levels to rise by nearly a foot.
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According to a new study led by Northwestern University behavioral scientists, mixed-gender teams tend to produce research that is significantly more innovative and impactful on average than same-gender ones.

People with dementia or Alzheimer's disease often lose their ability to communicate verbally with loved ones. But a Northwestern Medicine study shows how that gap can be bridged with a new music intervention. In it, a live ensemble plays music from a patient’s youth that creates an emotional connection between a patient and their caregiver by allowing them to interact with the music together via singing, dancing and playing simple instruments.