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Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin’s flagship campus, has been named the next president of Northwestern University. She will become Northwestern’s 17th president, effective in the summer of 2022.

A Northwestern University research team has developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate threats such as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Given annually by Northwestern’s Campus Inclusion and Community (CIC) in the Division of Student Affairs, the Jazzy Johnson Waw-jashk awards called for nominations from faculty, staff and students based on five tenets: commitment, courage, care, service and humility.

A new study by Sera Young, associate professor of anthropology and a fellow at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research, research associate Hilary Bethancourt and colleagues shows that the 12-item Individual Water Insecurity Experience Scale (IWISE) can measure how water insecurity impacts people around the world.

Northwestern Medicine’s SuperAger research on adults over 80 years old with superior memory capacity will expand beyond its Chicago roots to include sites across the United States and one in Canada.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Oct. 1 announced new grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Northwestern University and the University of Chicago for gun violence-prevention research.

Northwestern University, along with 24 other research sites across the United States, has embarked on a longitudinal early childhood brain development study to assess how exposures to substances and environments before and after birth may affect the brain.

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), also referred to as diastolic heart failure, affects at least 2.5 million people in the U.S.; however the cardiovascular community has a very limited understanding of how to prevent or effectively treat it. Northwestern University has been awarded two grants totaling $18.1 million to research this condition.

Researchers proposed a new method for recording information to DNA that takes minutes, rather than hours or days, to complete. The team's method could change the way scientists study neurons inside the brain.

Victor Yampolsky, the Carol F. and Arthur L. Rice Jr. Professor in Music Performance at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, will retire at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, marking the conclusion of a 38-year teaching and conducting career at Northwestern.