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In 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a dramatic reversal in its approach to peanut-allergy prevention, recommending parents expose their infants as young as four months old to peanuts to prevent peanut allergy. In…

Despite having risk factors for heart disease, only 60% of women reported receiving counseling on optimizing their heart health, which includes healthy eating, exercise and losing weight gained during pregnancy at their six-week…

Northwestern University graduate student Elizabeth Koselka and Professor Laurence Marks each have received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowship from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The prestigious…

Northwestern has appointed Julie Allen board secretary and advisor to the president, effective Aug. 2, President Michael Schill announced today. Allen will report both to President Schill and Peter Barris, chair of the Board of…

Northwestern University today announced that it has engaged former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch from the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to lead an independent review of the processes and…

In a new Northwestern University-led study, researchers identified and recorded from three genetic subtypes of dopamine neurons in the midbrain region of a mouse model.Although there is a long-standing, common assumption that most — if…

Surveys of Twitter and Facebook users show people are exhausted by and unhappy with the overrepresentation of extreme political content or controversial topics in their feeds.In a review published Aug. 3 in the journal Trends in Cognitive…

Northwestern University has named Christopher Schuh the next dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective Aug. 1. He also will serve as the John G. Searle Professor of Materials Science and…

Northwestern University Dance Marathon returns to campus in the spring of 2024 to celebrate its golden anniversary. For the last 50 years, Dance Marathon has been a staple on the Evanston campus. Since its inception, the event has raised…

Northwestern University is receiving a $25 million grant from the Howard and Paula Trienens Fund to advance global sustainability and energy solutions at one of the University’s flagship research institutes. The grant from the Trienens…