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Now, a team led by Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has discovered a way to create slow movements using just chemistry and applied it to microrobotics. With the discovery also comes a new understanding of thermodynamics in which asymmetry and difference benefits a system.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University announces its 2022-2023 season of new musical works and the arrival of multi-talented Broadway artist Alexander Gemignani as its new artistic director.

The Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) at Northwestern University has launched a research collaborative to conduct a yearlong study on the City of Evanston’s reparations ordinance.

In a new study, researchers compared observed rainfall from two climatologically distinct time periods and across 17 different climate regions in the U.S. They found that when it’s rained in recent decades, it’s rained more.

Scientists have identified and described a new gene that is responsible for activating an aggressive subtype of small-cell lung cancer, the P subtype, for which there is no current effective treatment.

An epigenetics drug currently being used for the treatment of blood cancers and rare sarcomas can stop the growth of bladder cancer by activating the immune system.

Alicia Löffler, executive director of the Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO), will step down at the end of the 2022 Fall Quarter after 12 years in INVO and more than 20 years at Northwestern University.

On the eve of National Coming Out Day, LGBTQ+ communities, allies and the lawmakers working for equality face a host of challenges to progress made in the last decade. Northwestern University faculty members are available to speak to media about efforts to protect marriage equality in the wake of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, “don’t say gay” in school bills, monkeypox, trans health care and more.
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Using chemical design and synthesis, the team brought together the Nobel-prize winning technology with therapeutic technology born in their own lab to overcome a critical limitation of CRISPR. Specifically, the groundbreaking work provides a system to deliver the cargo required for generating the gene editing machine known as CRISPR-Cas9.

“Gays and Gospel,” a tribute to the LGBTQ+ community and all the contributions it has made to gospel music from its genesis in the 1920’s until today will be held on “National Coming Out Day.” The free event explores the tensions, challenges and triumphs of the LGBTQ+ community in gospel music.