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The U.S. Surgeon General published a rare report Tuesday warning of a mental health crisis among young people caused in part by the coronavirus pandemic. Northwestern Medicine experts weigh in.

“Advancing the Science and Practice of Street Outreach: Lessons Learned and the Future of Street Outreach in Illinois” 2021 Symposium. Chris Patterson, assistant secretary for violence prevention at the Illinois Department of Human Services, will deliver opening remarks, and N3 co-director and professor of sociology Andrew Papachristos will present recent N3 research.
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Two experts on U.S.-Russian relations are available to speak with media ahead of President Biden’s call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin today.
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Should students consider choosing majors that seem less satisfying but offer a more secure financial future?

Juliet Sorensen, a former prosecutor and a Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor, is available to speak with media on Biden’s plan to fight global corruption which was unveiled earlier today.
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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) addressed the Northwestern community last Thursday and warned that we should think of climate change as a national security threat and an existential challenge to the well-being and success of the United States.

A news conference with Northwestern University professor Christopher Benson and members of the family of Emmett Till will be held at 4 p.m., today, Dec. 6 to address the final investigative report in the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Till in Mississippi.

The new exhibition will explore the various ways American artists have grappled with anti-Black violence spanning a 100+ year period from the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013.

A new study shows the degeneration of brain motor neurons stars early in ALS, and the brain is a target for treatment, flipping a long-standing belief.

As the world marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, a disability justice advocate warns that our culture is simply too addicted to notions of speed and ease to make any kind of radical change.
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