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Three distinguished individuals will receive the 2023 Northwestern Alumni Medal — the highest honor given by the Northwestern Alumni Association.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, health care, politics, law and other domains have felt the impact of the decision. Below, Northwestern faculty from a variety of disciplines offer comments on the anniversary for media.
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Astronomers traced a gamma-ray burst (GRB) to the heart of an ancient galaxy. In the dense, busy environment surrounding the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, two stars collided to generate the GRB. This unexpected GRB source offers a new understanding of how stars die.

Scientists at Northwestern University and Purdue University challenge the assumption that photoexcitations destroy each other with evidence that annihilation depends on the quantum phase relationships of photoexcitations.

Vice President for Research Milan Mrksich has decided to step down from the position to focus full time on his research at Northwestern University.

A new study found the prevalence of food allergy is highest among Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black and Asian individuals across all ages. And food allergy is lowest among households earning more than $150,000 a year.

A dark comedy and a fun, heartwarming tale headline summer 2023 offerings at Northwestern University’s Wirtz Center on both the Evanston and Chicago campuses. A production of Chicago playwright Ike Holter’s award-winning play “Exit Strategy” serves as the culminating show for the graduating class of MFA acting students and will also include undergraduate performers. A new offering from the Wirtz Center’s popular Imagine U series for families, “Lyle the Crocodile,” is a musical adaptation of the classic children’s books “Lyle, Lyle Crocodile” and “The House on East 88th Street.”

A new research letter published June 14 in the journal JAMA Network found doctors and scientists are experiencing alarming rates of personal attacks on social media.

A new Northwestern Medicine study, published June 5 in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, provides data about immune cells and biological changes (gene expression) in pregnant people at multiple timepoints before and during pregnancy.

Northwestern Medicine scientists helped develop the largest and most comprehensive cell map of the human lung in a study in Nature Medicine. Revealing the great diversity of cell types in the lung and key differences between health and disease, the Human Lung Cell Atlas will be an important new resource for lung researchers.