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The University is well on its way to meeting its 35% minority contracting commitments, with $133 million contract awards to date having gone to minority- and women-owned businesses. Of those funds, $27 million has gone to local businesses.

Communication Justice Project is an innovative, community-based partnership that aims to dismantle systemic barriers to speech and language services by screening hundreds of preschool-aged children, including many whose voices have been historically underrepresented in scientific research. A new partnership between Northwestern's PedzSTAR lab run by Marisha Speights and CHAT expands the scope of Speights’ research and building on CHAT’s work bringing speech-language services into underserved communities.

Northwestern University artificial intelligence (AI) and security experts will release new reports from the Northwestern Terror Early Warning System (NTEWS), a machine-learning platform that models terrorist behavior to generate forecasts about future attacks.

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture — and it doesn’t require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors. Called MobilePoser, the new system leverages sensors already embedded within consumer mobile devices, including smartphones, smart watches and wireless earbuds.

CHICAGO --- From the first presidential debate debacle to the late entry of a major party candidate to the stark reality of political violence, the 2024 presidential election season has been one for the history books.
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EVANSTON, Ill. --- From designing new drug candidates in medicine to drafting new taxation policies in social sciences, the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific research are all around.

Northwestern University has launched a new Mental Health, Earlier Center at the Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci), thanks to an $11.7 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health.

Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, Northwestern University materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to store energy or record digital information.

In a new Northwestern University-led study, microbiologists found that showerheads and toothbrushes are teeming with an extremely diverse collection of viruses — most of which have never been seen before.

Professors of law and political science at Northwestern University are available to comment on voter suppression as a strategy to disenfranchise voters and influence election outcomes.
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