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CHICAGO --- Since Friday, five men on death row have been, or are scheduled to be, executed within a one-week span. The most high-profile is the case of Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams, executed in Missouri Tuesday night after a last-ditch effort to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the procedure failed.
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Past and present, history and myth, reality and spectacle are conflated and distorted in Federico Solmi’s “The Great Farce” (2017), a monumental media work in the collection of Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art, on view now through Dec. 1.

This week (Sept. 22-29) is World FTD Awareness Week, which aims to shed light on the often misunderstood and misdiagnosed disorder frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which can affect a patient’s personality, socials skills and speech.
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Northwestern University’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts in Chicago will host four innovative productions this fall illuminating important historical figures or cultural traditions and art’s ability to heal.

Had the Federal Assault Weapons Ban stayed in place, it would have prevented up to 38 more mass shootings between 2005 and 2022, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.

Northwestern researchers discovered different electrical charges build up on the front and back parts of a sliding object, creating a current of static electricity.

A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received a $20 million grant to develop and apply new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to astrophysics research and deep space exploration.

A new Northwestern Medicine study in mice has discovered a novel way to lengthen the “healthspan” of women's ovaries — improving maintenance of the ovaries and preventing key age-related changes in ovarian function.

Patients with cancer want their care team to assess them early in treatment about their concerns related to costs of care, reports a Northwestern Medicine study. It is the first time a study has sought cancer patients’ input on how they want to be screened for financial needs.

The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University and the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will co-host a series of screenings, discussions and events that pay homage to the groundbreaking festival that championed women filmmakers and marked a watershed moment in the history of cinema. “Films by Women/Chicago ’74” originally took place at the Gene Siskel Film Center in September 1974 at the height of the feminist movement.