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Researchers recently discovered that complex terrestrial landscapes might have helped land-dwelling animals evolve higher intelligence than their aquatic ancestors.

The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has released a free mobile web app designed to share the groundbreaking touring exhibition “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time” with international audiences.

Incoming Northwestern University-Qatar (NU-Q) dean, Marwan M. Kraidy, will give a “tour d’horizon” of the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on media and geopolitics.
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Northwestern professors available on historic ruling on LGBTQ employment discrimination
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As Father’s Day approaches, Northwestern pediatrician Dr. Craig Garfield points out a silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine: Dads’ increased time with their kids.
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After a national search for candidates, E. Patrick Johnson has been named dean of Northwestern University’s School of Communication, the university announced today.

This residency program invites activists, artists, engaged scholars, practitioners and educators to campus for one academic year to further their independent feminist work and incubate projects that further the Women’s Center’s mission and goals.

A new review of neurological symptoms of COVID-19 patients in reveals the disease poses a global threat to the entire nervous system, reports a Northwestern Medicine study published this week.

Researchers have developed the most precise way to build polyrotaxanes, using tiny artificial molecular pumps to install rings onto each end of a polymer string.

E. Patrick Johnson, professor of African American studies and performance studies, shares “Precious and the Boo Hag,” a children’s fairytale by Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean Moss, as the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University “Imagine U Storytime” series continues on the Wirtz Center YouTube channel.