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One hundred and fifteen years after the execution of Joe James in Springfield, Illinois, lawyers and law students from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions in Chicago are part of a team that has filed a petition seeking a posthumous pardon for James.

Sixteen of the nation’s most prominent colleges and universities, including Northwestern, have teamed up in a new effort to help students, from small-town and rural America enroll in, succeed at and graduate from the undergraduate program of their choice.

The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts in Chicago hosts two new and innovative productions exploring little-known truths about the history of slavery.

A new $3 million, four-year grant from the National Center for Special Education Research led by Northwestern University’s Megan Roberts aims reduce the time to autism diagnosis for hundreds of Illinois kids, which can have lifelong benefits.
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New transistor technology boosts the body's electrochemical signals by 1,000 times, enabling diagnostic and disease-monitoring implants.

Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna will deliver a public lecture, “A Decade of CRISPR: What’s ahead for genome editing” at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Tuesday, April 4.
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Researchers adapted a well-known computer-vision algorithm used for sharpening photos and, for the first time, applied it to astronomical images from ground-based telescopes.

Five distinguished individuals, including commencement speaker Gov. JB Pritzker and Northwestern President Emeritus Morton Schapiro, will receive honorary degrees from Northwestern University.

Women who have experienced sexual violence at fraternity parties have often been blamed for what happened to them. But new research on an elite college campus suggests that it’s becoming less common to fault the victim. Instead, many women are holding institutional structures responsible.

For the first time ever, researchers have watched the mesmerizing process of nanoparticles self-assembling into solid materials.