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The Winter Chamber Music Festival returns for its 26th season at the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music Jan. 6 to 22, 2023. The lineup includes six concerts offering classical and contemporary chamber works performed by world-class musicians. The festival is directed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist and Bienen faculty member Blair Milton.

As 2023 peers around the corner, cardiology and sleep medicine experts at Northwestern Medicine are encouraging one goal to be on everyone’s New Year's resolution lists: getting better sleep.
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Northwestern political scientists and law faculty are available to comment on the “state of play” as the new Congress is seated in January 2023. Below, they offer reactions to the midterms and thoughts about the future of American politics.
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Protests have flared up in countless urban centers all over China on the heels of a violent clash between workers and police at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou and a fire in a residential tower in Xinjiang that killed 10 people. Northwestern University history and sociology experts on China are available to discuss the significance of the mass protests.
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Some clinicians have recommended vitamin D supplements to ease the muscle aches of patients taking a statin, but a new study from scientists at Northwestern University, Harvard University and Stanford University shows the vitamin appears to have no substantial impact.

Stress can amplify pain in IBS patients and even change the natural composition of our gut microbiome, according to a Northwestern Medicine medical social scientist and clinical psychologist.
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A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has developed the most extensive inventory to date of the galaxies where short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) originate.

Two of Chicago’s most notable innovations of the year are rooted in Northwestern University research, according to Chicago Innovation, which bestowed the coveted honors on the Illinois Wastewater Surveillance System and Epicore Biosystems at the 21st annual Chicago Innovation Awards Nov. 16.

By 2031, the rebuild of Ryan Field on Northwestern University’s campus will generate nearly $1.2 billion for the Evanston community, according to a newly released independent economic impact study. This includes $659.9 million in economic impact to the City of Evanston during the construction process alone.

In the race to make solar energy more practical amidst soaring gas prices and threats of climate catastrophe, a team of researchers is taking steps toward a more efficient, higher voltage solar cell made of all-perovskite crystals.