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Eight Northwestern University debuts are in store for the 2022-23 season as the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music resumes its four guest artist subscription series showcasing a diverse lineup of talent from around the world.

On Aug. 21, a NASA-funded team will launch its “Micro-X” rocket from White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. The rocket will spend 15 minutes in space — just enough time to snap a quick image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a star in the Cassiopeia constellation that exploded approximately 11,000 light-years away from Earth.

Michael H. Schill, the president of the University of Oregon, has been named the 17th president of Northwestern University. Schill has led Oregon since 2015.

A new Northwestern Medicine study has found using a large genetic panel that checks for many genes at the same time is more likely to identify whether a study participant has both cardiomyopathy and a heart arrhythmia.

With the expected passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 this week, political scientists at Northwestern University discuss how recent legislative achievements may shape the outcome of November’s consequential elections.
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Environmental law experts weigh in on what the Inflation Reduction Act accomplishes, and possible next steps.

Northwestern University researchers have discovered a ubiquitous property of a complex network and developed a novel computational method that is the first to systematically exploit that property to control the whole network using only local information.

A new collection of research papers from Northwestern University and collaborating institutions sets out priority areas to provide better emergency care for people living with dementia in the United States.

Using STARFORGE simulations, astrophysicists discovered that star formation is a self-regulatory process. In other words, stars themselves set their own masses.

A new study focused on Black medical students finds those attending historically Black medical schools report a greater sense of belonging and greater confidence in their scholastic abilities than those in predominantly white medical schools.