The Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s clinical program, the Bluhm Legal Clinic, provides students with a direct, real-world experience representing clients and serving as advocates. On Thursday, April 14, the Center of International Human Rights–one of the clinic’s 14 centers–held its annual presentation for global fieldwork research. Two of the four works presented were part
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Let’s call him Naskar. Naskar grew up in a small village outside Calcutta, and moved to the city when he was 22. He is homosexual, and quickly developed a likeminded group of friends. He doesn’t do drugs, though he sometimes drinks. He sees his family infrequently, and spends most of his time inside the city
To the layperson, worldwide reports about the HIV/AIDS epidemic grow increasingly grim. But Benjamin Armbruster, an assistant professor at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, believes that good old-fashioned math can help solve problems of identification, treatment and prevention. A believer in the healthcare applications of engineering since grad school at Stanford, Armbruster
In a time when so many Americans wonder what our healthcare system will look like in a couple of years, it’s also important to consider what it will feel like. In some instances, it often seems doctors have thrown their bedside manners out the window, acting more like mechanics working on broken machinery than human