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Medical students on Friday will learn where they’ll train for residency
March 16, 2021
This Friday medical students across the U.S. will learn where they’ll complete their residency. Although the event happens annually, this Match Day feels different after enduring a full year of COVID-19.
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George Floyd case will put legal protections of police on full display, law professor says
March 15, 2021
Outcome of case will hinge on whether people of color will be able to participate in the jury process
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American Music Theatre Project’s 15th anniversary season finishes strong
March 12, 2021
American Music Theatre Project shows include “[re: CLICK] 2.0,” a cyberpunk drama for the #MeToo era, “Sean’s Story,” an epic two-part musical about Black identity and “Expect Victory,” a new musical about the unexpected intersections between athletics, analytics and interpersonal relationships.
President Biden nominates Ben Harris as assistant secretary for economic policy
March 11, 2021
President Joe Biden announced today, March 11, his intent to nominate Ben Harris, associate professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, as assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, the White House said in a statement.
Scientists stabilize atomically thin boron for practical use
March 11, 2021
By bonding borophene with atomic hydrogen, Northwestern researchers created borophane, which has the same exciting properties as borophene and is stable outside of a vacuum.
Researchers reveal 3D structure responsible for gene expression
March 11, 2021
For the first time ever, a research team has peered inside a human cell to view the mediator complex, a multi-subunit machine responsible for regulating gene expression.
Pain hides in our data
March 11, 2021
Researchers accurately estimated pain levels and detected changes in pain by using AI algorithms to examine physiological data from patients with chronic pain.
New study identifies a limit on the range of vocalizations that support infant cognition
March 11, 2021
In prior studies, Northwestern researchers found that infants’ success in object categorization was boosted, not only in the context of listening to their native language, but also while listening to vocalizations of non-human primates. This indicated that the link between human language and cognition emerges very early and derives from an initially broad template that also includes vocalizations of other primates.
Fatal opioid overdoses in Cook County spiked in first COVID stay-at-home order
March 11, 2021
The number of fatal opioid overdoses in Cook County spiked during Illinois’ first 11-week COVID-19 stay-at-home order last spring, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.
A portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in song
March 11, 2021
Thanks to the gift of song and music, we also have a glimpse into the personal side of the justice who was known simply as RBG. Bienen School of Music lecturer and soprano-composer, Patrice Michaels, immortalized and humanized her mother-in-law in the song cycle, “The Long View: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs.”
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