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Ahead of the first face-to-face meeting today between senior U.S. and Chinese officials since President Joe Biden took office, global affairs experts from Northwestern University break down the renewed policy posture toward China and the intricacies of pushing back on the Asian giant’s ambitions.
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The ruling of a district court in the progressive region of Hokkaido in Japan that failure to recognize same-sex marriage is unconstitutional is encouraging, but might face hurdles as it goes up the chain of the country’s judicial system, according to Annelise Riles, professor of law and executive director of the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University.
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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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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 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 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.

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.

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.

Researchers accurately estimated pain levels and detected changes in pain by using AI algorithms to examine physiological data from patients with chronic pain.

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.