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Exterior of the George Manierre Elementary Public School 1420 N. Hudson Avenue, Chicago, Tuesday May 21, 2013 I Scott Stewart~Sun-Times The former president and CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade, Vitale currently chairs the Urban Partnership Bank in Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit and has a long banking resume.

A little more than a year after the CeaseFire program was announced in early April 2012, the staff tasked with short-circuiting street violence through personal intervention had identified 40 conflicts that could result, or had already ended up, in bloodshed in an area of New Orleans' Central City neighborhood.

The technique could find applications in drug delivery, cell therapy, and related biological fields.

The son of an Indiana man killed on May 16 when a beam fell on him at a construction site on Northwestern University is suing the project's general contractor, Schaumberg-based Power Construction Company , Evanston Review reported.

Northwestern University scientist Chad A. Mirkin has been selected to receive the 2013 Linus Pauling Medal Award from the Oregon, Portland and Puget Sound local sections of the American Chemical Society .

Northwestern University students have long served as good neighbors in Evanston by contributing their time and energy to various community service projects.

The science behind the lie detector test has been disputed since its creation 90 years ago, so is there any reliable way to tell if someone is lying, asks Dr Geoff Bunn, author of The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector.

Journalist and author Stephen Rodrick will discuss his new book, "The Magical Stranger: A Son's Journey into His Father's Life," Thursday, May 23, at Northwestern University.

Northwestern University scientists have shown a gene involved in neurodegenerative disease also plays a critical role in the proper function of the circadian clock.

An international team of scientists using a new X-ray method recorded the internal structure and cell movement inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ever before.

The technology for these devices may not be so far off. Northwestern University researchers have recently developed a graphene-based ink that is highly conductive and tolerant to bending, and they have used it to inkjet-print graphene patterns that could be used for extremely detailed, conductive electrodes.

In the mid-1990s, as the Human Genome Project was in full swing, scientists started thinking about the protein complement of the genome, and proteomics-the identification and characterization of all of an organism's proteins-was born.

Why would a graduate student of opera refuse to perform a piece and risk failing a class where he otherwise would have likely earned an "A"? Some principles are worth fighting for.

Evergreen Park Police Chief Michael Saunders has issued a statement on the planned protest scheduled for Saturday, May 18 at 1 p.m. The protest is expected to start at 1 p.m. and organizers say they will march down 95th Street from Western Avenue to Cicero Avenue to protest what they see as discriminatory racial practices of the Evergreen Park and ... (more)

Joe Kennedy Jr. began to sense in the spring of 1941 that the war in Europe would eventually involve the United States.

Two dozen Chinese doctorate students from nine universities in midwest United States on Friday received an annual Chinese government award for self-financed students studying abroad.

Cydney Richardson, who is into science and math and wants to go into biomedical engineering, poses at Rich South High School in Richton Park, IL, on Tuesday, March 19, 2012.

An international team of scientists using a new X-ray method recorded the internal structure and cell movement inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ever before.

A Northwestern University student was rejected for a "diversity and inclusion post" in student government because he is a white, heterosexual male, resulting in a sharp rebuke from the university's student newspaper.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into Schaumburg, Ill.-based Power Construction Co.