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Check out some of the biggest 2020 research stories from Northwestern University.
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Northwestern interdisciplinary team has also been working to make public court records more freely accessible

Northwestern is firmly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, and strongly disagrees with Joseph Epstein’s misogynistic views.

More than 100 Republican members of the U.S. House have signed on to an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed with the Supreme Court
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Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management professor Craig Garthwaite is available to comment on the possibilities and challenges surrounding vaccine rollout.
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As the world celebrates Human Rights Day tomorrow, international bodies like the World Health Organization must receive our support as essential instruments of protecting fundamental human rights in the face of global upheaval, according to Juliet Sorensen, clinical professor of law with Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center for International Human Rights.
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Researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind life-like material that acts as a soft robot. It can walk at human speed, pick up and transport cargo, climb up hills and spin to release a particle.

Burrell is serving a life sentence for the 2002 death of Minneapolis 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards

A gene mutation discovered in a small Amish community in Indiana has inspired the use of a new experimental drug for COVID-19 that reduces blood clotting, which is a primary driver of morbidity and organ damage in COVID.

In a well-resourced health system with adequate PPE (Personal Protection Equipment), health care worker risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection was more strongly driven by community exposure than patient exposure early in the pandemic, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.