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A slyly funny play about a family living in a world of magical realism, a delicate story about friendship, music and isolation, and a powerful tale about the coming of age of an immigrant family make up the trio of Wirtz Center's annual MFA Collaboration series in the winter and spring of 2024. The MFA Lab series brings together Northwestern’s second year MFA theater directors with Northwestern MFA designers, creating collaborations that represent the future of theater.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, CECILIA Survey receives first data from galaxies forming two-to-three billion years after the Big Bang. By examining light from these 33 galaxies, researchers discovered their elemental composition and temperature.

Northwestern University researchers have raised the standards again for perovskite solar cells with a new development that helped the emerging technology hit new records for efficiency.

16 students from the Northwestern Prison Education Program received their bachelor’s degrees from inside Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois. This is the first time in U.S. history that incarcerated students have been conferred a bachelor’s degree from a top 10 university.

The boiling frog parable seems to have inspired new Northwestern University research, which identified a brain pathway responsible for rapid-threat detection.

Northwestern University researchers are introducing new soft, miniaturized wearable devices that continuously track subtle bodily sounds simultaneously and wirelessly at multiple locations across nearly any region of the body.

As seismic activity intensifies ahead of an impending eruption of a fissure near Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano, the island’s Reykjanes Peninsula is experiencing hundreds of earthquakes per day. Listeners can follow along through Northwestern University’s Earthtunes app, which transforms seismic frequencies into audible pitches.

David Braun has been named Northwestern University’s Dan and Susan Jones Family Head Football Coach, President Michael Schill and Vice President for Athletics & Recreation Dr. Derrick Gragg announced today. The new title takes effect immediately. Braun becomes the 30th head football coach in University history.

First lady Jill Biden will now lead a new initiative announced Monday to improve how the U.S. federal government funds health research about women. Myriad experts at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have had numerous studies published that highlight the lack of sex inclusion in scientific and clinical research.
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Northwestern University spectrum expert Randall Berry is available to comment on the wireless industry, technologies behind networked systems, the importance of freeing up more spectrum bands to meet skyrocketing demands and the need to grow and support the spectrum workforce.
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