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Actress Kathryn Hahn will deliver this year’s commencement address to Northwestern University’s Class of 2024.

Northwestern University clinical psychologist and scientist Kelli Scott is trying to re-envision care at opioid treatment programs (OTPs) to help patients receive more personalized treatment based on measuring their progress, which will hopefully lead to better health outcomes and keep them in recovery longer.

The Gateways Music Festival connects and supports classical musicians of African descent. A series of Chicago area performances launches April 15 at Northwestern’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

Northwestern University professors in the fields of political science, communication and management are available to discuss a range of election topics ahead of Super Tuesday, including campaign strategy, misinformation and issues driving voters to the polls.
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A new Northwestern Medicine study identifies mechanisms that enable ketamine to work rapidly and also have long-term effects.

In the aftermath of Alabama Supreme Court’s in vitro fertilization ruling, the state’s reproductive-age women with cancer, who face a high likelihood of future infertility, “are losing the gold-standard option to build a family following their necessary medical treatments,” said Northwestern Medicine fertility preservation expert Dr. Kara Goldman.
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Some professors at Northwestern University are looking to create a clearer picture of what happens when you combine climate change with urban environments.

Psychology researchers at Northwestern University have published the first study to demonstrate the immediate effectiveness of a guided discussion task to promote parent-child conversations about racial bias in white U.S. families.

Women diagnosed with ovarian cancer may initially respond well to chemotherapy, but the majority of them will develop resistance to treatment and die from the disease. Now Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the Achilles heel of chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer — its hunger for cholesterol — and how to sneakily use that to destroy it.

Following the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling last Friday that frozen embryos are children, Northwestern Medicine infertility experts are available to discuss what this could mean for the future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Alabama and nationally.
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