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Northwestern has appointed Lisa Dhar associate vice president for innovation. In this capacity, Dhar will lead the Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO), a unit integral to advancing the University’s research impact through translation and entrepreneurship.

With political attacks on trans rights moving through various state legislatures and international governing bodies — including bans on gender-affirming care for minors and limitations on involvement in sports — accurate reporting on gender nonconforming individuals is critically important.
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Northwestern University public health sociologist and opioid overdose expert Maryann Mason is available to speak to reporters today about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Narcan naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for over-the-counter (OTC), nonprescription, use.
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Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy (Lumbee) of Arizona State University (ASU) has been named dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, effective June 1.

With one week remaining until Chicago’s mayoral runoff election on April 4, Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) and a coalition of Black and Latino nonprofits released the results of a second nonpartisan poll showing candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas in a neck-and-neck race to the finish line.

Northwestern University has earned the ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award for the fourth consecutive year from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.

New simulation shows where different pollutants form in Chicago as well as how pollutants spread, interact with other gases and sunlight in the air, and change according to seasons.

Mice treated with drug combination had 79 percent less tumor volume and 63 percent fewer tumors in their lungs than untreated mice

Focus on age, not weight, to capture the greatest number of people in all racial and ethnic groups with prediabetes and diabetes. Screening all adults aged 35 to 70 years, regardless of weight, identifies the greatest proportion of adults with prediabetes and diabetes in the U.S.

Northwestern University has selected a partnership between Turner Construction and Walsh Construction (Turner-Walsh) as its construction manager for the redevelopment of Ryan Field.