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Northwestern University has been awarded $20 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study how incarceration affects health, age-related conditions and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Led by Feinberg School of Medicine’s Linda Teplin, principal investigator of the Northwestern Juvenile Project (NJP), the study is the first of its kind.

Northwestern University’s American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) and Teatro Vista Productions (TVP) present a one-night-only, free concert event featuring Mexican musical sensation Jaimie Lozano. “Jamie Lozano & The Familia: Songs by an Immigrant” takes place on Monday, Oct 14 at Wirtz Center Chicago located inside Abbott Hall, 710 N. Lake Shore Drive on Northwestern’s Chicago campus.

For the first time ever, researchers have witnessed — in real time and at the molecular-scale — hydrogen and oxygen atoms merge to form tiny, nano-sized bubbles of water.

Anyone tuning into NPR’s Morning Edition Sept. 30 will hear the launch of a new program, “Stress Less: A quest to reclaim your calm,” which will incorporate Northwestern University's Resilience Challenge.

Northwestern University Center for Audiology, Speech, Language and Learning (NUCASLL) in the School of Communication is launching a series of free public workshops using improvision to help young people who stutter. The series titled “Break the Blocks” was successfully piloted last year and is expanding this fall.

CHICAGO --- Since Friday, five men on death row have been, or are scheduled to be, executed within a one-week span. The most high-profile is the case of Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams, executed in Missouri Tuesday night after a last-ditch effort to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the procedure failed.
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Past and present, history and myth, reality and spectacle are conflated and distorted in Federico Solmi’s “The Great Farce” (2017), a monumental media work in the collection of Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art, on view now through Dec. 1.

This week (Sept. 22-29) is World FTD Awareness Week, which aims to shed light on the often misunderstood and misdiagnosed disorder frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which can affect a patient’s personality, socials skills and speech.
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Northwestern University’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts in Chicago will host four innovative productions this fall illuminating important historical figures or cultural traditions and art’s ability to heal.

Had the Federal Assault Weapons Ban stayed in place, it would have prevented up to 38 more mass shootings between 2005 and 2022, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.