Northwestern Now E-News Tuesday, May 5 ===================================== NEWS ===================================== "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. Read More: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/05/honorary-degrees-commencement "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. Read More: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/04/monitoring-covid-19-from-hospital-to-home-first-wearable-device-continuously-tracks-key-symptoms/ "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. Read More: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/05/ai-tool-speeds-up-search-for-covid-19-treatments-and-vaccines/ "Citizen soldiers step up" Alumnus and dental oncologist Ryan Lee leads a National Guard team conducting COVID-19 testing for Massachusetts’ most vulnerable populations. Read More: https://magazine.northwestern.edu/exclusives/a-sense-of-duty-and-community-ryan-lee ===================================== FEATURES ===================================== "It’s not uncommon, when there’s a viral process, to have skin manifestations." - Amy Paller of Feinberg has been part of significant national media coverage of a potential new, rare COVID-19 symptom known as “COVID toes.” Read More: https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a32338408/coronavirus-symptom-covid-toes/ ===================================== EVENTS ===================================== ------------------------------------- Visit Northwestern Now: https://news.northwestern.edu Contact the editor: news@northwestern.edu Unsubscribe: https://news.northwestern.edu/subscribe