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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.

A new way to significantly increase the potency of almost any vaccine has been developed by researchers from the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern.

Using observations collected over the past 12 years, a Northwestern University astrophysicist assembled a time lapse video of four exoplanets orbiting around star HR8799.

Northwestern University experts in psychiatry and pediatrics caution people against watching the police body-cam footage released today of the October, 2022, attack on Paul Pelosi in his San Francisco home and the yet-to-be-released footage of Tyre Nichols’ attack in Memphis from earlier this month.
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Robleto served as an artist-at-large at the McCormick School of Engineering. This unique program partnership between The Block Museum and McCormick gave the artist an open “hall pass” to learn from, collaborate with and question scientists, engineers and experts from across the University. The five-year residency concludes with the exhibition “The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto.”

A recent poll conducted by national public opinion research firm Impact Research shows a majority of Evanston residents support a plan to rebuild Northwestern University’s Ryan Field football stadium as a smaller, more environmentally friendly and accessible community venue.

Amazon Pharmacy on Tuesday announced RxPass, its $5 monthly prescription medication subscription for Amazon Prime members. Northwestern Medicine licensed pharmacist Dr. Minoli Perera is available to discuss with media some pros of the new subscription service, such as affordability and access, and some cons, such as not being able to flag potential drug interactions.