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Using advanced data science and analytics, researchers prove that failure early in one's career leads to greater success in the future for those who try again.

Northwestern alumnus, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times journalist David Barstow will visit Northwestern University for a conversation on the state of investigative journalism.

New tool provides critical information for addressing the global water crisis

The New York Times recently published identifying details of the whistle-blower whose claims led Democrats to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Northwestern experts are available to speak with media on this.
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The series includes “Cherry Orchard,” Nov. 24, 2019, by 2019 Larson Award winner Emily Gardner Xu Hall; “A Mother’s Song,” March 14 to 15, 2020, written by Finn Anderson and directed by Tania Azevedo; and folk-rock biography “The Battlefields of Clara Barton,” May 29, 2020, co-written by acclaimed playwright Suzan Zeder and Jennifer Hartmann Luck.

Researchers produced some of the first evidence that shows that artificial selection and natural selection act on the same genes, a hypothesis predicted by Charles Darwin in 1859.

Federico Solmi’s monumental media work, “The Great Farce” (2017), was acquired by Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art in recognition of the 40th anniversary and its related initiative “Thinking about History.”

Experts available to speak on possible impeachment proceedings Trump’s latest scandal could be his Watergate, professors say
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Dittmar Gallery at Northwestern University announces two fall exhibitions by Chicago-area artists. “Narrative Botanics,” nature-inspired woodblock prints by Gabriella Boros is on view now through Oct. 13, and “reevaluating ‘a’,” paintings and sculptures by lewis lane will open Oct. 18 and continue through Dec. 8.

Researchers have developed a tiny nanolaser that can fit and function inside of living tissues, such as deep-brain tissues, without harming them.