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To help ensure that U.S. buildings can withstand bioterrorism, pandemics and tragic accidents, Northwestern University — along with Idaho National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate — has organized the Built Environment Surveillance Testbed summits.

Jon Yates, currently co-interim vice president for Global Marketing and Communications for Northwestern University, has been appointed its new vice president, effective June 15, reporting to President Michael Schill.

In a new Northwestern University-led study, astrophysicists crunched 12.5 years of data from 45 dead stars (called pulsars) to set the best limits yet on the gravitational wave signatures emitted from pairs of supermassive black holes.

Northwestern University Dance Marathon returns to campus in the spring of 2024 to celebrate its golden anniversary. For the last 50 years, Dance Marathon has been a staple on the Evanston campus. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $22 million for more than 30 different charitable organizations.

Northwestern University is receiving a $25 million grant from the Howard and Paula Trienens Fund to advance global sustainability and energy solutions at one of the University’s flagship research institutes.

One part of the brain surface, a region called the temporal pole because it is at the very tip of the temporal lobe, could not be linked to a specific function for at least the first 100 years of research on the cortex. Northwestern Medicine scientists have just discovered that this mysterious and seemingly silent surface is actually one of the most colorful regions of the brain. It has critical functions in word comprehension, face recognition and the regulation of behavior.

Northwestern University has named Christopher Schuh the next dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective Aug. 1. He also will serve as the John G. Searle Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.

June 10 will mark the 30-year anniversary of the U.S. Congress’ passage of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act, which required the inclusion of women in federally funded research.
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As of Oct. 3, the Supreme Court is back in session with a new slate of highly consequential cases on its docket. To better understand what is at stake, Northwestern Now spoke with faculty to learn what cases they are following and what the ramifications are likely to be.
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Dr. Phyllis Zee also will present “Circadian Rhythms and Long COVID” at the symposium “The Interconnection of Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Long COVID at 1:30 p.m. (E.T.) Tuesday, June 6, at SLEEP 2023.