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“Just love me” is the central idea throughout Women Initiating New Directions Lived Experience Leader Mariah Greer’s poem. The poem was featured in “Women Writing Their Futures,” an anthology of poems written by women at Logan Correctional Center, Cook County Jail and Grace House. These women wrote their poems as part of a writing workshop. ....
An international team of scientists, including physics and astronomy Prof. Shane Larson, will construct a new gravitational wave detector with the European Space Agency over the next 10 years, the University announced Jan. 25. Larson is a U.S. board member on the consortium overseeing the construction of the detector, named the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.. ....
Representatives from Evanston-area civic groups, community organizations and local government offices met to discuss methods of maximizing voter turnout in this year’s elections at a virtual meeting Tuesday. The Voter Participation Action Coalition was originally created in 2015 with the goal of increasing local participation in the 2016 presidential election. Led by the League of. ....
Working with an international team of researchers, Northwestern astrophysicists found that a new NASA telescope set to launch in May 2027 will help astronomers to understand dark matter, the University announced Wednesday. NASA said more is unknown than is known about dark matter — which makes up roughly 27% of the universe. Scientists do know. ....
When Cassie Petoskey had her first child, she decided to practice gender-creative parenting, raising her child without gendered roles, stereotypes or pronouns. However, Petoskey, who serves as Northwestern’s director of alumni engagement, was the only one of their friends practicing gender-creative parenting. In her search for a space to discuss her questions about gender, she. ....