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Pediatric psychologist Lauren Potthoff recently spent seven days in Kyiv to volunteer with Ukrainian-based Voices of Children, a nonprofit foundation that provides psychological, psychosocial and targeted humanitarian support to Ukrainian families and children affected by the war.

CHICAGO --- When Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions (CWC) launched in April 1999, wrongful convictions were viewed as anomalies — rare exceptions to a criminal justice machine perceived as fair and effective. Fortunately, the public has become increasingly aware that prisons and death rows around the country are populated by many who have been wrongly convicted.
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Optimized surface structure innately prevents frost without heat or special coating. Reducing frost may increase energy efficiency in appliances, reduce drag on airplanes and more. Researchers were inspired by leaves, which do not form frost on their concave veins.

Northwestern University’s Querrey InQbation Lab (The Q) has entered a new partnership with Material Impact, a Boston-based venture firm focused on innovations in materials science and deep tech.

Doctors struggle to accurately predict pneumonia patients’ prognoses and determine the most effective treatments. Now, by applying a sophisticated machine-learning approach to electronic health records (EHRs) of patients with pneumonia, researchers at Northwestern University have uncovered five distinct clinical states in pneumonia.

Health officials are sounding the alarm as cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, surge across the nation. It is important to remember whooping cough is not only a pediatric disease, says Northwestern University pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Tina Tan.
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President Biden will deliver remarks in Arizona today apologizing for the federal government’s role in forcing Indigenous children into boarding schools, where many were abused and nearly 1,000 died. Doug Kiel (citizen of Oneida Nation), an associate professor of history and a faculty fellow at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University, is available for media interviews on this historic event.

For the first time, scientists have found individuals in Nigeria are experiencing neurological manifestations of long COVID — called neuro-long COVID — such as brain fog, mild cognitive impairment, fatigue, sleep problems, headache, sensations of pins and needles, and muscle pain.

To date, the effectiveness of an at-home method for lucid dreaming that combine pre-sleep training with sensory cues has not been systematically tested. A new study by neuroscientists at Northwestern University is the first to provide evidence that this method, known as targeted lucidity reactivation (TLR), can be successful with minimal technical requirements. Adapting the TLR method previously used in Ken Paller’s sleep lab at Northwestern, the team conducted research using a smartphone app that links sensory stimulation with a lucid state of mind.

After only one to three days of a whiplash injury, scientists can predict which patients will develop chronic pain based on the extent of cross ‘talk’ between two regions of the brain, and the person’s anxiety level after the injury, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.