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Northwestern Feinberg medical student Tyler Smith has advanced to the finals of InnoFest, a new national competition hosted by the American Medical Student Association that showcases innovations from future physicians.

CHICAGO --- The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland that instructed the Trump administration to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully sent to a El Salvadoran maximum-security prison, to the United States after the administration admitted to an “administrative error.”
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A Northwestern University-led international team of scientists has, for the first time, directly observed catalysis in-action at the atomic level.

A longstanding mystery in Parkinson’s disease research has been why some individuals carrying pathogenic variants that increase their risk of PD go on to develop the disease, while others who also carry such variants do not.

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first wearable device for measuring gases emitted from and absorbed by the skin.

Experimental drug NU-9 — a small molecule compound approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical trials for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — improves neuron health in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new Northwestern University study.

A timely retelling of a classic musical kicks off the Wirtz Center’s spring season at Northwestern. Goodman Theatre resident director Henry Godinez reimagines “Man of La Mancha” –– arguably one of the world’s most popular musicals.

Kyle Stephan has been appointed Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. She will begin her tenure in August 2025

Northwestern University health economist and policy researcher Lindsay Allen is available to speak to media about ongoing discussions in Congress related to Medicaid work requirements
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EVANSTON, Ill. --- History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, following the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the Reconstruction Era saw unchecked violence against Black Americans, and after the women’s suffrage movement secured the rights of women to vote, anti-suffrage propaganda dominated the conversation for much of the early 20th century.
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