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As Chicago prepares for the nation’s largest auto show this weekend, auto makers are under continued pressure to electrify vehicles as part of a global effort to decelerate human-caused climate change.
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On Wednesday, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, after consulting with representatives from the Students Publishing Company, decided to dismiss criminal charges against two Northwestern students who had been charged with theft of advertising services in the distribution of “fake” Daily Northwestern newspapers last October.

David Lively has been named vice president for Alumni Relations and Development, effective immediately, President Michael Schill announced today. Lively, who joined ARD more than a decade ago and has risen through the ranks, had been serving as senior associate vice president and interim vice president.

A classic fairy tale brought to life and a visit by an award-winning and Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano highlight the winter voice and opera season at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music.

International relations and political science experts from Northwestern University address the latest news from Gaza, and U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s fifth trip to the region since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
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In a new study, Northwestern University researchers determined the factors that could cause carbon to be trapped in soil rather than released into the atmosphere.

The Choi and Roybal labs have jointly engineered a novel therapy for solid tumors. It borrows a superpower from T cell cancers to make T cell therapies strong enough to fight skin, lung and stomach cancers.

A new study led by psychology researchers at Northwestern University found 84% of Black parents and 76% of white parents had spoken to their 8– to 11-year-old-children about the Black Lives Matter movement within the year following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

As is in many fields, medical professionals are still figuring out whether artificial intelligence will help or hinder their work. Experts also are exploring how biases within society make their way into human-created machines. A new Northwestern University study finds that physician-machine partnerships boost diagnostic accuracy in dermatology, but accuracy disparities across skin color persist.

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center for International Human Rights will award its ninth Global Jurist of the Year Award to Judge Igor Tuleya, a district court judge in Warsaw, Poland.