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Cincinnati.com this morning reports that "perjury, faulty eyewitness identification and prosecutorial misconduct are the leading reasons for wrongful convictions according to the first national registry of exonerations – a database compiled in collaboration by the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, which has identified 873 faulty convictions in the past 23 years that have been  

That was the key message from Admiral James G. Stavridis, commander of the United States European Command and NATO supreme allied commander, Europe, who spoke to the Kellogg community on May 18. Stavridis was attending the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago.  

After a Forbes writer raised Marion Barry's history with drug abuse, did the councilmember respond with a salty barb or a reference to a top-tier business school. We think it's the former. [ more › ]  

Left-handed people are relatively rare because of the balance between cooperation and competition in human evolution, according to a new study of sports data. Representing only 10 percent of the general human population, left-handers have been viewed with suspicion and persecuted across history. The word sinister even derives from left or left-hand.  

Researchers at Northwestern University's Department of Radiation Oncology and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory recently deployed a new non-destructive X-ray microscopy solution from Xradia to image cryogenically preserved cells and advance studies of intra-cellular biology  

Goettsch Partners (GP) has designed the signature building that will be the new home of Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music and provide additional space for the School of Communication on Northwestern's Evanston campus. The building is located just south of the school's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on the southeastern edge of campus.  

EVANSTON, Ill., May 19 (UPI) -- City leaders in Evanston, Ill., opted to stick with classic red rather than paint the town's fire hydrants Wildcat purple in honor of Northwestern University. The council this week rejected a proposal to repaint ...  

Timothy J. Robblee will conduct a program featuring Russell Peck’s “Cave,” Andrew Rindfleisch’s “The Light Fantastic,” Jonathan Newman’s “Moon by Night” and Kevin Puts’ “Chorus of Light.” Tickets are $6 for the general public and $4 ...  

May 24, 2012- Celebrating Paris in film at Block Museum  

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University professor Monica Olvera de la Cruz, a theoretician who has developed models to determine the dynamics of macromolecules, has been elected a member of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).  

This Wednesday night, I’m participating in a two-person panel discussion on the intersection between religion and secularism (and how they’re opposed) at Northwestern University. The event goes from 7:00-9:00p in Harris Hall 107. It’s sponsored by the Secular Student Alliance and Northwestern University Interfaith Initiative (NUii). Stop by if you’re in the area! And as [...]  

Brad Hamm, dean of the IU School of Journalism, has been named dean of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Hamm has been dean of the School of Journalism since 2005 and is only the fifth dean ...  

Northwestern faculty and staff with a valid WildCARD ID receive a 15 percent discount off the general public ticket price. For more information, call the Pick-Staiger Concert Office at (847) 491-5441 or visit the Pick-Staiger website at www.pickstaiger.org.  

BlissTreeTeen Depression Can Be Diagnosed With New Blood Test, Northwestern University SaysHuffington PostNorthwestern Medicine scientist Eva Redei has developed the first blood test to diagnose major depression in teens -- a breakthrough that allows for scientific and objective diagnosis over current subjective methods. Physicians have relied upon a ...Breakthrough Test Identifies DepressionIvanhoeBlood Test to Diagnose Major Depression in...  

The 30,000 QR that came with second place will help the documentarians, all students at Northwestern University in Qatar, to produce multimedia projects on current events in the Arab world for foreign audiences. "We see a lot of international media ...