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Outreach At NU
Bringing together the social, life, and biomedical sciences to understand the origins, consequences, and policy solutions for contemporary health inequalities in the United States
The Center for Bioethics, Science and Society actively researches and engages ethical reflection on the pioneering scholarship being carried out at Northwestern University.
The Center for Genetic Medicine serves as a focal point for education and training in genetics and fosters public understanding of genetics and genomics.
The Center for Technology and Social Behavior's central goal is to support researchers in their quest to understand the role that technology plays in our everyday social interactions.
The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is dedicated to research, education and patient care.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy has many active research programs, offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, and is active in a number of educational and public outreach activities.
The Health Learning Centers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital empower users—the public, patients, families, and NM providers and staff—with timely, accurate, health information.
The IIN is an innovative and far-reaching collaborative venture between Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Nanoscale Materials and their partners.
Nurturing a community of discourse on meaning in medicine
One Book One Northwestern brings individuals together through the sharing of a common book, and provides people an opportunity to read and discuss influential pieces of literary work.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Northwestern’s School of Continuing Studies is a peer-led, non-credit, educational and social program serving 500 mature adults on the Chicago and Evanston campuses.
The Science in Human Culture (SHC) program invites scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences to study the cultural context in which science, technology, and medicine develop.
An annual public outreach event organized by the neurobiology and physiology department at Northwestern University.
The Northwestern chapter of the international honor society of science and engineering sponsors a series of public outreach lectures, Science Cafe, for the community.
ICEP is dedicated to the understanding of evolution and the processes leading to the origin of the universe, and the diversity of life on earth and elsewhere in the universe.
The Oncofertility Consortium is a nationwide, interdisciplinary group led by Northwestern University researchers, dedicated to the advancement of technologies that will provide improved fertility preserving options to cancer patients.
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University is dedicated to the process of discovery, advancing medical knowledge, and providing compassionate, state-of-the-art cancer care.