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A $5 million gift from Harry J. Seigle ’71 JD will expand Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s immigration clinic, which represents children, young adults and parents in immigration court proceedings.

COVID-19 vaccines continue to save lives. But a new paper published today (February 7, 2023) in the journal Vaccines adds important nuance to our understanding of how vaccine protection varies with age, finding that people age 50 and over benefit the most from a booster shot.

Scientists from Northwestern University have collaborated on the implementation of an accurate, low-cost and easy-to-use test for detecting toxic levels of fluoride in water. The study was co-led by Northwestern anthropologist Sera Young and synthetic biologist Julius Lucks. The new biosensor device developed at Northwestern has been field tested in rural Kenya, providing evidence that water testing for fluoride can be easily used outside of a lab and accurately interpreted by nonexperts.

Danceworks, the annual celebration of movement and contemporary dance is back on-stage at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Political scientist Alvin B. Tillery Jr., director of the Center of Diversity and Democracy at Northwestern University is available for comment on the speech.
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Researchers have, for the first time, deciphered the metabolic mechanisms that enable C. testosteroni to digest the seemingly undigestible. This new information could potentially lead to novel biotechnology platforms that harness the bacteria to help recycle plastic waste.

In his SLIPPAGE lab at Northwestern, Tommy DeFrantz takes an innovative and interdisciplinary approach as he explores connections among performance, history, theatre and emergent technology.

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center for International Human Rights will award its eighth Global Jurist of the Year Award to Guatemalan judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez.

“Our primary success was in identifying Black and Latinx sexual minority men living with HIV who were not in treatment — despite being aware of their positive HIV status — and engaging them in care,” said Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus, co-author, assistant research professor and associate director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) at Northwestern University.

Decades after hiring discrimination was made illegal in many Western countries, experts predicted it would gradually disappear. But according to a major new meta-analysis from Northwestern University, discrimination in hiring has remained a persistent problem. In fact, with few exceptions, rates of hiring discrimination have changed little since the 1990s.