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The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Family has made the largest single gift in Northwestern University’s history, a $480 million gift that will accelerate breakthroughs in biomedical, economics and business research and enable the University to redevelop the Ryan Field football stadium.

Inspired by the aerodynamics of wind-dispersed seeds, researchers developed microfliers, which could be broadly dispersed to monitor pollution and airborne disease.

Engineers are introducing a new platform that enables makers, hobbyists and novice programmers to build their own battery-free devices that run with intermittent, harvested energy.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed an antibody that can be used to treat muscular dystrophy.

Hypertension that leads to vascular dementia in older adults begins to impact the brain by middle age, reports a large new Northwestern Medicine study, the first to show the process begins so early. But in some middle-aged individuals with this damage, their brains reorganize to bypass the damage and enhance communication between brain cells, the study also found. And these people did better on tasks related to cognitive function.

COVID-19 experts from Northwestern Medicine say the highly anticipated FDA announcement Friday about booster shots will settle questions about booster timing for the general population and people with underlying health conditions.

Northwestern University researchers assessing the response to COVID-19 for child care programs in Illinois have found the state’s efforts to bolster child care access to first responders while stabilizing the market were equitable and largely successful.

The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University celebrates its 40th anniversary and the full reopening of its galleries with the fall 2021 exhibition “Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection.”

The abortion ban in Texas imposes the burden of pregnancy — and with it, the burden of potential dysphoria, being outed or violence — on trans individuals without viable alternative choices.
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Geraldo Cadava, a history professor at Northwestern University and author of “The Hispanic Republican,” said he wouldn’t be surprised if the election to recall Governor Gavin Newsom works, amid evidence of an uptick in Latino support for Trump in 2020.
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