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Northwestern University preventive medicine expert Dr. Jeffrey Linder is available to speak to media about the U.S. Government Accountability Office's recent report that found 11 of 12 prenatal supplements had at least one nutrient above or below the levels noted on labels.
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Presented in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI), “Actions for the Earth: Art, Care and Ecology,” on view at The Block Museum of Art from Jan. 26 to July 7.

Now, astronomers led by Northwestern University have pinpointed the extraordinary object’s birthplace of the most powerful and most distant fast radio burst ever observed. Now, astronomers led by Northwestern University have pinpointed the extraordinary object’s birthplace within a collection of at least seven galaxies.

Northwestern University’s Wirtz Centers offer audiences never-seen productions this January and February with a public workshop production of “Shimmer: A New Musical,” Jan. 25 and 28 at Wirtz Center Chicago; “Working: A Musical Localized,” Feb. 2 to 11; and “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really,” Feb. 23 to Mar. 3. “Working” and the reimagined “Dracula” will be staged at Wirtz Center Evanston.

How does a pregnant person’s environment, diet, stress, medications and social wellbeing affect their pregnancy and — down the road — their child’s health? That will be the focus of a new two-year study from scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

Author and Northwestern University alum Jonathan Eig (’86) will headline Northwestern’s 2024 MLK Commemoration with a keynote event. Eig will be joined in conversation by Medill School Dean Charles Whitaker. The keynote conversation will take place Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 5 p.m. in person at Galvin Hall.

Northwestern does not tolerate antisemitism or discriminatory acts against any members of its community. Northwestern will not stand idly by as outside groups push false narratives to harm the University and our community.

Northwestern University professor Brian Mustanski has been appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Director of National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Monica Bertagnolli.

Taking inspiration from the human brain, researchers have developed a new synaptic transistor capable of higher-level thinking. The device simultaneously processes and stores information just like the human brain. In new experiments, the researchers demonstrated that the transistor goes beyond simple machine-learning tasks to categorize data and is capable of performing associative learning.

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a person might someday suffer an aortic aneurysm, a deadly condition that often causes no symptoms until it ruptures.