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Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy (Lumbee) of Arizona State University (ASU) has been named dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, effective June 1.

With one week remaining until Chicago’s mayoral runoff election on April 4, Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) and a coalition of Black and Latino nonprofits released the results of a second nonpartisan poll showing candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas in a neck-and-neck race to the finish line.

Northwestern University has earned the ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award for the fourth consecutive year from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.

New simulation shows where different pollutants form in Chicago as well as how pollutants spread, interact with other gases and sunlight in the air, and change according to seasons.

Mice treated with drug combination had 79 percent less tumor volume and 63 percent fewer tumors in their lungs than untreated mice

Focus on age, not weight, to capture the greatest number of people in all racial and ethnic groups with prediabetes and diabetes. Screening all adults aged 35 to 70 years, regardless of weight, identifies the greatest proportion of adults with prediabetes and diabetes in the U.S.

Northwestern University has selected a partnership between Turner Construction and Walsh Construction (Turner-Walsh) as its construction manager for the redevelopment of Ryan Field.

One of the leading conferences for new music in the world, the event welcomes composers, performing musicians, scholars and other new music advocates for workshops, discussions and concerts. Following a postponed 2020 NUNC! 4 that was hosted virtually in 2021, the conference returns to an in-person format in 2023.

A new study from Northwestern University has found evidence of a reverse “Flynn effect” in a large U.S. sample between 2006 and 2018 in every category except one. For the reverse Flynn effect, there were consistent negative slopes for three out of the four cognitive domains.

A new study from scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is the first to show that extrapolating such information to humans based on animal measurements generates incorrect predictions.