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Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in June, Latino communities have been facing a barrage of Spanish-language misinformation and disinformation about abortion.
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Northwestern Medicine OB-GYN Dr. Melissa Simon said Sen. Lindsey Graham’s proposed 15-week abortion ban, “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act,” which claims that a fetus develops pain receptors at seven weeks gestational age, “has no scientific basis. There are no data that support fetal experience of pain at 15 weeks gestational age."
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Toni-Marie Montgomery, dean of the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University since 2003, will step down at the end of the 2022-23 academic year after a distinguished two-decade tenure.

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics announced today (Sept. 14) that CRISPR pioneer and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna is the recipient of the inaugural $250,000 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.

New analysis shows antifouling membranes reduce costs, energy consumption over their lifetimes.

The United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, died this afternoon at her Balmoral Castle residence in Scotland. A figure of stability and tradition during her reign of seven decades, her death constitutes a moment of transition for the U.K. Below, Northwestern experts offer thoughts on the Queen’s life and legacy.
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Raphael Bostic, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will deliver the 2022 Fall Distinguished Public Policy Lecture at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research (IPR) on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, at 3 p.m. CDT. The lecture is cosponsored with the Public Action and the Social Compact (PACT) program in the Kellogg School of Management and will cover the battle against inflation.
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Pregnant people who had bigger fluctuations in stress from one moment to the next—also called lability—had infants with more fear, sadness and distress at three months old than mothers with less stress variability, reports a new Northwestern University study.

Northwestern University's Dr. Clyde Yancy is available to comment on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recent announcement that the U.S. life expectancy fell to its lowest in decades, dropping to 76.1 years in 2021—the lowest it has been since 1996—from 77 years in 2020.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will visit Northwestern Pritzker School of Law as the Howard J. Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar on Wednesday, Sept. 14, and participate in a moderated discussion with Law School Dean Hari M. Osofsky.
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