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New book examines the ‘Tom Joyner Morning Show’ as a political and cultural phenomenon

Chicago audiences will discover an expanded history of Pop Art when The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University opens the exhibition “Pop América, 1965–1975” Sept. 21.

Scientists have pinpointed the location of dysfunctional brain networks that lead to impaired sentence production and word finding in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a subtype of dementia.

The Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center — the largest new building dedicated to biomedical research at an American medical school — officially opened June 17.
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Northwestern University bioelectronics pioneer John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, teamed up with a Feinberg School of Medicine dermatologist to develop soft, flexible wireless body sensors that replace wire-based sensors currently used in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). The team recently completed a collection of first preterm infant studies at Prentice Women’s Hospital and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago and concluded that the wireless sensors provided data as precise and accurate as that from traditional monitoring systems.

Tiny protrusions threaten to destroy Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings. Northwestern University scientists have developed a tool to better study the phenomenon known as "art acne."

The world’s smallest wearable, battery-free device has been developed by Northwestern Medicine and Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering scientists to measure exposure to light across multiple wavelengths, from the ultra violet (UV), to visible and even infrared parts of the solar spectrum. It can record up to three separate wavelengths of light at one time.

The Block Museum of Art is launching “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa." It is the first major exhibition to highlight West Africa’s global reach in the medieval period of the 8th to 16th centuries by looking directly at its material remains through loans from Mali, Morocco and Nigeria.

A Band-Aid-like skin sensor non-invasively monitors brain shunt performance, which could improve life for a million hydrocephalus patients, and prevent surgeries and CT scans.
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Researchers led by Northwestern Engineering’s Luis Amaral sifted through data from more than 1.5 million questionnaire respondents to find at least four distinct clusters of personality types exist — average, reserved, self-centered, and role model — challenging existing paradigms in psychology.