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| People |
Honorary degrees for Chicago mayor and three others |
Four distinguished individuals will receive honorary degrees from Northwestern during a virtual commencement ceremony on June 19. The recipients are Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, TV and film writer Norman Lear, MIT professor emerita JoAnne Stubbe and Harvard professor George Whitesides. |
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| Health |
Monitoring COVID-19 from hospital to home |
Researchers at Northwestern and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab have developed a wearable device and are creating a set of data algorithms specifically tailored to catch early symptoms of COVID-19 and to monitor patients at home as the illness progresses. |
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Research review in minutes instead of months |
Northwestern researchers are using artificial intelligence to speed up the search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. A new AI-powered tool makes it possible to prioritize resources for the most promising studies while ignoring research unlikely to yield benefits. |
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Citizen soldiers step up |
Alumnus and dental oncologist Ryan Lee leads a National Guard team conducting COVID-19 testing for Massachusetts’ most vulnerable populations. |
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It’s not uncommon, when there’s a viral process, to have skin manifestations.”
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