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“The Translator,” a film about the journey of a political refugee who risks everything to rescue his brother from the Assad regime in Syria, will be screened next Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m. CDT at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University.
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Researchers have developed an injectable therapy based on nanofibers that has enabled paralyzed mice with severe spinal cord injuries to regain the ability to walk.

A $5 million gift from IBM will endow two computer science professorships in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering in honor of Virginia M. “Ginni” Rometty ʼ79, ʼ15 H, the first woman to lead the company.

An expert on infrastructure policy, Joseph Schofer is available to discuss the recently passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, which will be signed into law next week.
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Judge Anisa Rasooli will accept Northwestern’s Global Jurist of the Year Award on behalf of all women judges in Afghanistan.

Potentially life-saving genetic testing is underutilized in cardiomyopathy patients, reports a new study. Screening for variants associated with both cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias simultaneously improved detection.

Ahead of tomorrow’s release of inflation data for the month of October, economists from Northwestern University are available to speak with media on what the Federal Reserve can do to curb rising consumer prices.

Economist Matthias Doepke explains the key factors behind a sluggish labor force participation rate. Doepke is professor of economics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.
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Using gravitational-wave detection, researchers assembled the largest catalog ever, which details 33 black hole mergers and 2 mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

With Pfizer’s announcement today that its new pill — Paxlovid — to treat COVID-19 was highly effective in preventing severe illness in at-risk people in a clinical trial, Northwestern Medicine experts stress vaccines are still the best defense against the virus and ending the pandemic.