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How Biden can help stave off invasion of Ukraine
December 7, 2021
Two experts on U.S.-Russian relations are available to speak with media ahead of President Biden’s call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin today.
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When does selective college matter?
December 7, 2021
Should students consider choosing majors that seem less satisfying but offer a more secure financial future?
Former prosecutor available to comment on Biden’s anti-corruption strategy
December 6, 2021
Juliet Sorensen, a former prosecutor and a Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor, is available to speak with media on Biden’s plan to fight global corruption which was unveiled earlier today.
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Climate change is a ‘national security threat’ to U.S.
December 6, 2021
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) addressed the Northwestern community last Thursday and warned that we should think of climate change as a national security threat and an existential challenge to the well-being and success of the United States.
Northwestern professor, family of Emmett Till to comment on final investigative report
December 6, 2021
A news conference with Northwestern University professor Christopher Benson and members of the family of Emmett Till will be held at 4 p.m., today, Dec. 6 to address the final investigative report in the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Till in Mississippi.

Art as a way to protest, process, mourn and memorialize anti-Black violence in America
December 6, 2021
The new exhibition will explore the various ways American artists have grappled with anti-Black violence spanning a 100+ year period from the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013.
ALS therapy should target brain, not just spine
December 3, 2021 – from Northwestern Now
A new study shows the degeneration of brain motor neurons stars early in ALS, and the brain is a target for treatment, flipping a long-standing belief.
‘We’re too addicted to speed and ease at the expense of disability justice,’ expert warns
December 3, 2021
As the world marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, a disability justice advocate warns that our culture is simply too addicted to notions of speed and ease to make any kind of radical change.
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Brittney Thompson’s approach to climate change is through self-care
December 2, 2021
Thompson serves as the graduate assistant in the One Book One Northwestern office and studies environmental education at Northwestern. She shares insights on how to use self care to drive change.

Northwestern music theatre expert available to speak on Sondheim’s legacy
December 1, 2021
John Haas is an assistant professor in the department of theatre at Northwestern University, where he teaches in the music theatre and master of fine arts acting programs. A course entitled Singing Sondheim is one of the courses Hass teaches.
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