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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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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Patients with high cholesterol and triglycerides who underwent spinal, cardiac or orthopedic surgery were at greater risk of waking up blind. The condition, called perioperative visual loss, is caused when a blood clot blocks the veins.

Delegates from Northwestern University who attended the COP26 summit were inspired by the turnout but also alarmed that some groups, especially Indigenous and small island nations, were not as successful in shaping the final commitments in Glasgow last month.