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Northwestern is launching a unique community-based theater arts partnership with Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Imagine U. The partnership, Learn and Imagine Together Through Theater (LITTT), begins in the 2022-2023 academic year.

Since the '80s, Dr. Marsel Mesulam was pioneering a new field of research on the neurological condition: primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare syndrome that destroys a person’s language.

A new protein-based antiviral nasal spray is being advanced to Phase I human clinical trials to treat COVID-19. It works by blocking the spike protein's ability to infect cells.

Several years in the making, “The Last Message Received” was co-commissioned by the Bienen School of Music for the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, the Northwestern University Chorale, the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and Director of Choral Organizations Donald Nally as well as the Yale Glee Club and Yale Symphony Orchestra.

Northwestern University researchers are the first to demonstrate that a material called a metal-organic framework is a stable and selective catalyst for breaking down polyester-based plastic bottles.

Dr. Jeremy Nathans, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2022 Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science at Northwestern University.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused feelings of anxiety and unhappiness for youth across the country, but it hasn’t caused new mental illness, according to Northwestern University experts.
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Researchers tested the effectiveness of decoy nanoparticles against the coronavirus and its variants, finding that the strategy is consistently effective at inhibiting infection.

Two bold dramas take the stage at Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts on the Evanston campus this spring. “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” blends the realities of war and humor as a tiger haunts the streets of present-day Baghdad seeking the meaning of life. The second offering, “Water by the Spoonful,” is about forgiveness, redemption and family in a precarious, virtual world that reverberates in real life.

Experts say Jackson will bring a novel perspective to the most pressing issues that the United States judiciary must address.
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