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Northwestern University chemists have unveiled a new type of nanostructure that dramatically improves CRISPR delivery and potentially extends its scope of utility.

Michael Schill announced today that he will step down from the presidency of Northwestern University, concluding a three-year tenure that saw continued ascension across the University’s three campuses, record fundraising and a steady rise in national rankings of the best universities in the country.

Northwestern University physicists are using NVIDIA technology to tackle the computationally demanding tasks hindering quantum research.

Northwestern University Trustee Jennifer Leischner Litowitz ’91 and Alec Litowitz (’22, ’27 P) have made a $20 million gift in support of the Center for Enlightened Disagreement to accelerate the University’s impact on promoting constructive engagement and discourse in an increasingly polarized world.

A common soil bacterium completely reorganizes its metabolism to thrive on these lignin, the tough, woody material that gives plants their rigidity.

This fall, Northwestern University’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts in Chicago will present three bold and genre-defying productions. The season kicks off with a cutting-edge symposium on technology and contemporary performance, followed by a poignant exploration of Black masculinity. The season concludes with a visually stunning theatrical work that blends puppetry, music and poetry to illuminate an artist’s spiritual awakening in 19th-century Ukraine.

Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can drastically reduce — or perhaps even fully bypass — the laborious chore of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste.

Black adults in the U.S. are first hospitalized for heart failure nearly 14 years earlier than white adults, reports a Northwestern Medicine study that analyzed data from more than 42,000 patients across hundreds of hospitals nationwide.

New study tracked eight bumble bee species in the wild across eight years. Bee species occupy two distinct diet groups: one prefers protein and another prefers fat and carbs.

Developmental scientists and medical social science experts at Northwestern University have spearheaded the creation of the most recent NIH Toolbox, providing the newest nationally standardized assessment of cognitive, language, motor and social-emotional skill development in infants aged 16 days to 42 months.