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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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Northwestern HIV researchers navigate additional pandemic stressors, explore new research frameworks among twin epidemics

April 17, 2022

Feinberg Prof. Judd Hultquist’s lab typically focuses on HIV research. But after the COVID-19 pandemic began, he also had to allocate time and resources toward researching the new virus and processing...

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First case of omicron subvariant BA.2 identified in Illinois by Northwestern Medicine

February 1, 2022

Northwestern Medicine researchers identified the first BA.2 omicron subvariant case in Illinois Monday.  Scientists at the Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution detected the subvariant...

The Feinberg School of Medicine. Researchers at the school recently discovered Illinois’ first case of the P.1 COVID-19 variant.

NUCATS funds Feinberg studies on COVID-19

October 26, 2020

With the help of Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Chicago has become a center for COVID-19 research. NUCATS has funded multiple COVID-19 research projects, which...

The Feinberg School of Medicine. Researchers at the school recently discovered Illinois’ first case of the P.1 COVID-19 variant.

Northwestern, Chicago-area hospitals conduct vaccine clinical trials among other preventative studies

August 6, 2020

Northwestern Medicine is recruiting 5,000 adult volunteers for a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate and other preventative studies through a registry, it announced in a July 27 news release. Supported...

Evanston residents talk about the pros and cons of Evanston’s mask mandate.

Residents talk Evanston face mask mandate

July 8, 2020

Weinberg junior Tony Hao said the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. sent health packages containing 30 masks each to Northwestern’s Chinese international students. But when his mask-wearing friend headed to...

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