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The 27th Winter Chamber Music Festival returns to Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music January 5 to 21, 2024. The annual festival features six performances and includes the debuts of the Balourdet and Calder Quartets. The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet is also part of this year’s festival lineup.

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics announced today that renowned biochemist Craig M. Crews has been named the winner of the annual $250,000 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) announces new works coming in 2024. Projects include “Wonder Boy” by Jaime Jarrett, a transgender superhero musical for audience of all ages; “Eddie the Marvelous, Who Will Save the World” by The Kilbanes, a glam rock musical about social anxiety; and “Manic Pixie Dream Girls Aren’t Black” by Amara Janae Brady, a new genre-bending musical about fighting “the man” with a video game.

Several faculty are available to discuss the complex history and broad impact of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East.
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Sandra Day O’Connor — the first woman on the Supreme Court — died today at the age of 93. The Supreme Court announced the news in a statement, citing her battle with dementia as the cause of death.
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A new Northwestern University study — led by Bernard Black of Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law and Kellogg School of Management — suggests that the U.S. could have saved many lives by authorizing a COVID-19 booster dose sooner, along with stronger public health messaging. The study uses Israel as a counterfactual example of what the U.S. might have achieved.

Sleep-deprived parents may view that bottle of melatonin gummies on the store shelf as a golden ticket to finally getting their kids to sleep and getting some rest themselves, but is it safe?

While the mental health crisis has touched the lives of Americans across a broad spectrum, new Northwestern University research has found that young adults aged 18 to 39 — dually burdened by the increased economic uncertainty that often accompanies youth — did not recover with the rest of the population as the country emerged from the worst of the pandemic.

Found in fishing nets, carpet, clothing, Nylon-6 is a major contributor to plastic pollution, including ocean pollution. Now, Northwestern University chemists have developed a new catalyst that quickly, cleanly and completely breaks down Nylon-6 in a matter of minutes — without generating harmful byproducts.

People with personality traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion and positive affect are less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative affect, according to a new analysis by researchers at Northwestern University and the University of California, Davis.