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As the White House announces an infrastructure plan later today, an expert from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management says that upgrading U.S. highways, transit systems and airports is long overdue.
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A novel protein designed by Northwestern Medicine scientists significantly reduced lung damage and resulted in only mild symptoms in mice infected with SARS-Cov-2 while untreated animals in this model all succumbed to the infection.

Those on the left of the political spectrum are more likely than those on the right to notice social inequality, but only when it affects typically disadvantaged groups, a new study from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University has shown.

A federal assault weapon ban was highly effective in reducing public mass shootings, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study just published in a pre-print.

Heart failure deaths are persistently higher in rural areas of the United States compared with urban areas, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The research also showed race disparities in heart failure are prevalent in rural and urban areas with greatest increases among Black adults under 65 years old.

Amy Stanley has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography for “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World.”

Opening statements in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was fired after the encounter, are set to begin Monday, March 29.
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A new study from a research consortium including Northwestern University shows that while attitudes toward vaccination remain unchanged among the vaccine-resistant population, the level of hesitancy has dropped substantially since January, from 37% to 29% among health care workers and from 41% to 31% among non-health care workers.

The impasse caused by a stranded container ship in Egypt’s Suez Canal could affect the prices of oil and other goods if it remained unresolved for a while, said Phillip Braun, professor of finance at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.
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The city of Evanston’s decision to approve a reparations program aimed at its Black residents is an “incredibly important milestone” and a testament to the work of local activists and politicians who made the issue of racial justice central to Democratic Party politics, said Alvin Tillery, a professor of political science at Northwestern University.
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