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Kids are heading back to school amid a national surge in COVID-19 cases, caused mostly by the delta variant. Safe in-person learning can still be safely achieved if masks are worn, experts say.
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When Brian Mustanski was out for a run recently, a young man in an SUV pulled up next to him. “Faggot!” he yelled out the window, laughing as he drove away.

As the building blocks of all cells including neurons, proteins hold the keys to better understanding complex brain diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

Not so fast on COVID-19 vaccine boosters, say Northwestern Medicine experts after the Food and Drug Administration announced plans Friday to speed efforts to authorize extra doses of the coronavirus vaccines for Americans with weakened immune systems.

By stimulating rat whiskers in an extensive range of motions, researchers discovered that nearly all primary touch-sensitive neurons respond to most information available.

“The support for mandates is higher than many realize and increasing, likely due to the spread of the delta variant and anxiety about school starting this fall,” said political scientist James Druckman, one of the project researchers.

Northwestern materials scientists will use advanced imaging techniques to learn more about the copper artworks' origins, materials and techniques used in their creation.

A team of scientists from Northwestern University and Seoul National University in Korea now has demonstrated a high-performing thermoelectric material in a practical form that can be used in device development.

American composer William Bolcom, National Medal of Arts recipient, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winner, has been awarded the $100,000 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition from the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.

The two leading organizations representing specialists in obstetric care today issued a joint statement overtly recommending that all pregnant individuals be vaccinated against COVID-19.