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Voting rights activity in Congress will reveal the limits of Sen. Manchin’s quest for bipartisanship, expert says
June 22, 2021
Political science and history experts from Northwestern University are available to comment on the For the People Act.
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‘U.S. Catholic bishops have overestimates what is left of their authority,’ expert says
June 22, 2021
Catholic studies experts explains the move by conservative U.S. bishops to deny President Biden communion as hypocrisy and dangerous political folly inspired by Steven Bannon.
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Recent hostilities highlight rising role for Arab citizens in Israel, expert says
June 22, 2021
Elie Rekhess, Crown Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at Northwestern University, is available to comment on the new political landscape in Israel following the formation of a new coalition government.
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China’s lifting of childbirth restrictions is a ‘short-term band-aid,’ expert says
June 21, 2021
Reports of China’s intention to loosen restrictions on childbirth are prompting experts to warn that previous efforts to control fertility backfired.
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Novel smart cement can be used to build more durable roads and cities
June 21, 2021
By introducing nanoparticles into ordinary cement, researchers have formed a smarter, more durable and highly functional cement.
Women and men are each underrepresented in clinical trials of different medical fields
June 18, 2021
A new Northwestern Medicine study that cross-analyzed 20,020 U.S. clinical trials between 2000-2020 found women and men are underrepresented in clinical trials of different medical fields.
Half of Father’s Day weekend gun victims last year were connected to previous victims, expert says
June 18, 2021
Ahead of a celebratory Father’s Day weekend that typically sees a spike in shootings in Chicago, Northwestern University researchers weigh in on the national pandemic of gun violence and policies and practices for interrupting the cycle.
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American Music Theatre Project breaks virtual ground with ‘[re:CLICK] 2.0’
June 18, 2021
An experimental web-based production allows audiences to pick an avatar and the version of the show they want to ‘play.’ Reactivated June 18 to 30 on a reimagined web-based platform, “[re:CLICK] 2.0” is a streaming performance featuring a cast from both universities, four time zones and three countries.

Alert system linked to operational hospitals, shorter lockdowns, lives saved
June 18, 2021
While using a COVID modeling-based alert system, the Austin metropolitan area has sustained the lowest per capita COVID-19 death rate among all large Texas cities.

EEG allows researchers to ‘look under the hood’ to discover how infants first link language and cognition
June 17, 2021
Cognitive psychologist Sandra Waxman, research specialist Kali Woodruff Carr and their colleagues identified developmental changes in 4- and 6-month-old infants’ neural responses to human speech and lemur calls, providing new insight into how the link to cognition becomes so rapidly attuned to human speech.