Northwestern University

A Northwestern University delegation recently made a five-day visit to Japan, highlighted by meetings with alumni and a roundtable discussion with leaders from major Japanese universities interested in exploring how to increase their…

The U7+ Alliance of World Universities issued a statement urging leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) to defend academic freedom, warning that a resurgence of autocracy is thwarting the institutional autonomy of higher education and its…

Two Northwestern University undergraduate students — Isabella Twocrow and Kadin Mills — have received national recognition from the Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, a federal agency that supports study in fields related to the…

The Johnny Mercer Foundation’s (JMF) Songwriters Project will convene in-person June 19 to 25 at Northwestern University, continuing a 17-year partnership with the American Music Theatre Project (AMTP).Fifteen participants, selected from…

A new study led by Northwestern University researchers used machine learning — a branch of artificial intelligence — to identify speech patterns in children with autism that were consistent between English and Cantonese, suggesting that…

Northwestern University’s popular TEACHx symposium, highlighting innovative experiments in teaching and learning, returned to an in-person event this year. More than 200 faculty, graduate students, learning designers and education…

A study led by Northwestern University plant biologists has determined that a species of fruit-bearing tree found in Borneo and the Philippines, long considered by Western botanists to be a single species, is actually two genetically…

Sixty percent of violence intervention workers in Chicago have witnessed a shooting attempt; 32% have witnessed someone else get shot while at work; 20% have been shot at while at work; and another 2% have been shot at and injured on the…

For nearly five decades, Northwestern University Dance Marathon (NUDM) has raised more than $23 million for various Evanston and Chicago-area charities. Next year, students will lace up their shoes and dance the night away March 3-5 to…

The social networking platform Reddit relies on volunteer moderators to prevent the site from being overrun by problematic content—including hate speech—and ensure that it remains appealing for users. Though uncompensated, this labor is…