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Northwestern University’s Institute for Sustainability and Energy (ISEN) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will host a virtual dialogue among global experts from science, engineering, industry and public policy about the emerging global sand crisis.
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Using imaging from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astrophysicists have traced five fast radio bursts to spiral galaxies' curvy outstretched arms, correlating with star formation.

This year Waa Mu presents its 90th production, “The Secret of Camp Elliot,” which the writing team has conceived as a supernatural mystery musical that follows three friends at summer camp in 1977. Presented by the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern, the production is directed by Amanda Tanguay will be filmed for streaming June 9–20.

May 25 marks one year since George Floyd’s murder, and Northwestern political science professor Alvin Tillery says, “One year later, we know that protest matters.”
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New Northwestern University research aims to address the “leaky pipeline” preventing Black medical students from completing medical school to pursuing residencies in high-need and underrepresented areas.

Northwestern University political science and anthropology experts focused on COVID-19 research are available to comment.
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Northwestern University is accepting nominations for its $200,000 Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science. The biennial prize will be awarded in fall 2022.

Called STARFORGE, a new, mathematically-driven computational framework is the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulation of stars being born to date.

JMF and the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University will continue their partnership with the 16th annual Songwriters Project. Participants from around the world, including the U.S., U.K. and Tanzania, will take part in an intensive week-long program of virtual master classes and workshops from their homes.

“After-Thought” features the creations of seven seniors in the Art Theory and Practice (ATP) program at Northwestern University. The works will be on display May 20 to June 18 at Dittmar Memorial Gallery, located in Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive.