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The Northwestern University Transportation Center will hold its third Asynchronous Virtual Roundtable, “Ocean Shipping and Supply Chains Under COVID-19,” at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 16.

President Trump’s decision on Tuesday that he will suspend payments to the World Health Organization (WHO) may further erode U.S. global influence around the world, and invite rivals such as China and Russia to fill the vacuum.
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Northwestern is collaborating with Rheaply to launch Emergency Resource Exchange (ERx), a new platform to help connect organizations with PPE and other critical medical supplies.

Is Obama endorsement coming too late to matter to Joe Biden’s political fortunes

Small businesses across the U.S. have applied for aid from the government’s Paycheck Protection Program. Northwestern expert comments on economics of small business loans.
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Researchers are developing new peptide-based therapeutics for targeting and disabling the coronavirus’ so-called “spike proteins," which infect healthy cells to cause COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting how certain populations, namely African-Americans, in some cities are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than other populations.
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Researchers are using cell-free synthetic biology to ramp up production of valinomycin, a promising drug that has proven effective in obliterating SARS-CoV in cellular cultures.

A century of social science research provides insights to better align behavior with the recommendations of public officials and health experts – insights that will be explored in a hour-long webinar presented by Northwestern University at noon (CDT) Tuesday, April 14.
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Héctor Carrillo and John Alba Cutler, both professors in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, were named recipients of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.