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Northwestern University’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts in Chicago will host three innovative productions this fall including Roger Guenveur Smith and Marc Anthony Thompson’s “Otto Frank,” a reading of “In the Beginning There Was House” by Universes founders Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and the U.S. premiere of “Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer” by U.K. performer Shane Shambhu.

If the region surrounding Chicago — North America’s largest freight hub — shifted just 30% of its current on-road heavy-duty vehicles to electric versions, it would substantially reduce pollution and save hundreds of lives per year, with the benefits largely concentrated in disadvantaged communities, according to a new Northwestern University-led study.

Landis “Lanny” Martin ’68, ’73 JD (’02, ’07, ’08 P), Northwestern alumnus, life trustee, former chair of the Board of Trustees and one of the University’s most generous benefactors, died Sept. 1. He was 77 years old.

Northwestern University scientists have launched a public dashboard containing the most comprehensive data on unintentional fatal drug overdoses in Illinois.

After developing the first numerical simulation that follows the jet evolution in a black hole-neutron star merger out to large distances, the astrophysicists discovered that the post-merger black hole can launch jets of material from the swallowed neutron star.

Improvisatory clinical viola music calms agitated epilepsy patients — as seen in their brain waves — when they are hospitalized in the epilepsy-monitoring unit, reports a new Northwestern Medicine pilot study.

A group of researchers at Northwestern University has developed a new recycling method for polyurethane foams, one of the most common types of plastic, that uses nontoxic, greener catalysts.

As temperatures continue to trend toward triple digits in Chicago this week, Northwestern Medicine emergency medicine expert Dr. Evelyn Huang has provided tips on keeping cool and safe, including when it’s time to head to the emergency room.
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Medical and economic researchers from Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin have co-authored a first-of-its-kind study that formalizes the debate concerning the predictive power of race in medicine.

New research led by Northwestern University Ph.D. student Matias Fernandez-Duque and Viorica Marian, the Ralph and Jean Sundin Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, sheds light on why overlapping sounds stand out in our memories.