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The Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (BATS), the first journal with an entirely trans editorial board, published its first open-access double issue today (June 13). The board’s members cover seven countries, from four continents and range from Harvard University professors to members of community nonprofits.

John Edward Porter, former U.S. Representative for Illinois’ 10th Congressional District and a Northwestern University alumnus, passed away on June 3, 2022. He was 87.

A new exhibition at Northwestern’s Deering Library titled “Freedom for Everyone: Slavery and Abolition in 19th Century America,” will showcase documents that include rarely-exhibited papers related to Frederick Douglass’s enslavement and later freedom, along with others that illuminate the experience of Black Americans in the 19th century.

A new publicly accessible special issue of the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (JAIDS) — a premier HIV/AIDS research journal — reports new findings on how to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.

In a first for the field, the Northwestern team used light and water to convert acetylene into ethylene, a widely used, highly valuable chemical that is a key ingredient in plastics.

The January 6 House committee will hold its first public hearings on Thursday, June 9 and Monday, June 13, with additional sessions to be announced. The committee has interviewed more than 1,000 individuals to date to uncover the details and sources of the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election of President Joe Biden. Northwestern University political science and U.S. history experts lay out what the public can expect from the hearings and what is at stake.
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Ely Orrego-Torres, a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University with a focus on Latin America, is attending Summit of the Americas this week in Los Angeles and is available to speak with media about how it unfolds.
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A new $5 million gift from Patricia Bao ’13 Ph.D. will advance research at Northwestern University that examines the future of technology and its ability to enhance the lives of people around the world. Bao’s gift will support Northwestern’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design (HCI+D), a collaboration between the University’s McCormick School of Engineering and School of Communication (SoC).

Ketamine is the speedster of antidepressants, working within hours compared to more common antidepressants that can take several weeks. But ketamine can only be given for a limited amount of time because of its many side effects.

For nearly five decades, Northwestern University Dance Marathon (NUDM) has raised more than $23 million for various Evanston and Chicago-area charities. Next year, students will lace up their shoes and dance the night away March 3-5 to raise vital funds for Little Heroes League, NUDM’s primary beneficiary for 2023. The nonprofit organization provides care coordination services to the most medically complex babies born in Chicagoland.