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For each of the past three years, Northwestern has moved up in the rankings of the Best National Universities. The climb is due, in part, to advancements in research.

As deaths rise from severe lung illness linked to use of a vaping device, Northwestern Medicine experts are available to discuss the dangers connected to vaping.
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Schomburgk’s deer was added to the extinction list in 1938. New evidence, gleaned from antlers obtained in the 1990s, shows that it survived for another 50 years.

The importance of family and friendships are at the center of Northwestern University’s 2019-2020 ImagineU season which features timeless adventures like Winnie the Pooh.

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."