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With students returning to college campuses this September, many universities implemented COVID-19 policies to keep cases low. But how do students feel about school policies given some states’ attempts to block vaccine and mask mandates?A…

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has fueled the imaginations of artists for centuries. There are numerous books, plays and films all adapted from this timeless myth. Now, the Greek tale is being told on the stage of the world-famous…

Now that the Human Genome Project has officially wrapped, an international team of researchers will map the entire collection of proteins in the human body.Plans and goals for the Human Proteoform Project were outlined in a paper…

Northwestern University researchers have invented a new high-resolution camera that can see the unseen — including around corners and through scattering media, such as skin, fog or potentially even the human skull.Called synthetic…

The search committee for Northwestern’s next Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian has launched the process of obtaining input from the University community on the qualities and experiences that should be prioritized as they…

After two years of producing the Waa-Mu Show virtually, the co-chairs of Northwestern University’s 91st Annual Waa-Mu Show have announced the show will move back to Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., on the Evanston campus. “A Peculiar…

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) will award its seventh Global Jurist of the Year Award to all women judges in Afghanistan, in recognition of the courage they all have shown under the…

A $5 million gift from IBM will endow two computer science professorships in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering in honor of Virginia M. “Ginni” Rometty ʼ79, ʼ15 H, the first woman to lead the company. Rometty, a…

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new injectable therapy that harnesses “dancing molecules” to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries. In a new study, researchers administered a single…

“The Translator,” a film about the journey of a political refugee who risks everything to rescue his brother from the Assad regime in Syria, will be screened next Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m. CDT at the Buffett Institute for Global…