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President Emeritus Arnold Weber passes
August 21, 2020
Northwestern University President Emeritus Arnold Weber, who presided over a decade of growth and prosperity that strengthened the University financially and academically and put it on a path to national prominence as a research powerhouse, died Aug. 20 at his Northbrook home. He was 90.
‘Patients with advanced lung cancer can live productive lives,’ says Northwestern expert
August 19, 2020
Dr. Jyoti Patel, the medical director of thoracic oncology for Northwestern Medicine, says patients with advanced-stage lung cancer can be treated with new therapies and still live productive lives.
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Naming guides how 12-month-old infants encode and remember objects
August 18, 2020
Evidence from a new recognition memory task reveals that as they encode objects, infants are sensitive to a principled link between naming and object representation by 12 months.
Kellogg, McCormick announce MBAi joint degree program
August 18, 2020
The Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University are launching an MBAi joint degree at the intersection of business and technology management.
National Survey: Most Americans not confident school reopening can be done safely
August 18, 2020
“Clearly, Americans are concerned. That those with lower incomes exhibit less confidence may track resource differences between schools that are needed to return safely,” said James Druckman, the Payson S. Wild Professor of political science in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and associate director of the University’s Institute for Policy Research.
Northwestern University to partner with Northwestern Medicine to deliver comprehensive health service for students
August 17, 2020
Starting Sept. 1, NM will manage the clinical operations of the Northwestern University Health Service, which handles more than 30,000 annual visits from students on both university campuses.
Northwestern to partner with Northwestern Medicine to deliver comprehensive health service for students
August 17, 2020
As Northwestern University ramps up its plans for the start of the new academic year, it is partnering with Northwestern Medicine on a multi-year agreement to manage the University’s Health Service in Evanston.
Kamala Harris: 'She is an opportunity for us to revisit our assumptions about race in the U.S.'
August 14, 2020
Nitasha Sharma is available to talk about mixed race identity and politics, dual-minority biracials, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama, and Black and Asian relations.
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Northwestern Law professors available to comment on suppressing mail-in votes
August 14, 2020
Former President Barack Obama is accusing the Trump administration of trying to suppress mail-in votes
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Widespread electric vehicle adoption would save billions of dollars, thousands of lives
August 14, 2020
Northwestern researchers have combined chemistry climate modeling with public health data to evaluate the impact of electric vehicles on U.S. lives and the economy.