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The number of local news deserts expanded in the U.S. this year with 127 newspapers shuttering, leaving nearly 55 million Americans with limited to no access to local news, according to the Medill State of Local News Report 2024 released today.

A new Northwestern Medicine study has demonstrated a new way to treat narcolepsy-related nightmares. The scientists combined cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and lucid dreaming to help patients in a small clinical trial.

“A Concert for Hope” to be held on Sunday, Oct. 27 at Alice Millar Chapel in Evanston addresses the urgent issue of gun violence and aims to create space both to mourn victims and to inspire hope for a better, safer future. The program includes Stacy Garrop’s “Repair the World,” a piece commissioned for the one-year anniversary of the Highland Park Fourth of July mass shooting.

Please join professor Tim Franklin, director of the Medill Local News Initiative and John M. Mutz Chair in Local News at Northwestern University, Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. (CDT) for a virtual briefing about the yet-to-be-released findings of the 2024 State of Local News report.
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Scientists at Northwestern Medicine and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have discovered an RNA that acts like the brake in one’s car to control how much or how little protein is produced by a gene.

The University is well on its way to meeting its 35% minority contracting commitments, with $133 million contract awards to date having gone to minority- and women-owned businesses. Of those funds, $27 million has gone to local businesses.

Communication Justice Project is an innovative, community-based partnership that aims to dismantle systemic barriers to speech and language services by screening hundreds of preschool-aged children, including many whose voices have been historically underrepresented in scientific research. A new partnership between Northwestern's PedzSTAR lab run by Marisha Speights and CHAT expands the scope of Speights’ research and building on CHAT’s work bringing speech-language services into underserved communities.

Northwestern University artificial intelligence (AI) and security experts will release new reports from the Northwestern Terror Early Warning System (NTEWS), a machine-learning platform that models terrorist behavior to generate forecasts about future attacks.

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture — and it doesn’t require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors. Called MobilePoser, the new system leverages sensors already embedded within consumer mobile devices, including smartphones, smart watches and wireless earbuds.

CHICAGO --- From the first presidential debate debacle to the late entry of a major party candidate to the stark reality of political violence, the 2024 presidential election season has been one for the history books.
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