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Dining on campus? See what’s changed this quarter

In the pandemic, not much in our daily routine remains unchanged. That also applies to eating with friends in a Northwestern dining hall or stopping in for a quick snack at a campus cafe.

But this quarter, Northwestern Dining still offers tasty meals, healthful grab-and-go options through the Boost mobile app and plenty of distanced seating at locations across campus.

Watch our video tour.

Office of the Provost announces awards for service, diversity, equity and curriculum

Regan Thomson and Sandra Waxman will receive the Provost Award for Exemplary Faculty Service.

Myrna García and the diversity, equity and inclusion committee of the physical therapy and human movement sciences department at Feinberg will receive the Daniel Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity. The committee is composed of Roberto Lopez-Rosado, Tobey DeMott Yeates, Ana Maria Acosta and Heather Henderson.

Kasey Evans, Kelly Wisecup and Marcela A. Fuentes have been named 2021 recipients of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation.

‘Put needles in arms as quickly as possible’

How many vaccines are in global production now? Which ones are most effective and does that even matter? What is herd immunity and will we be able to achieve that?

So many questions.

And we’ve gathered answers to these and other high-level vaccine questions from experts in the Feinberg School of Medicine who have been dedicated to fighting the virus since the beginning.

Your toothbrush reflects you, not your toilet

After studying microbial communities living on bristles from used toothbrushes, Northwestern researchers found those communities matched microbes commonly found inside the mouth and on skin rather than, as some might fear, in the aerosol particles generated by flushing a toilet.

Other News

• Northwestern Law is collaborating with the Social Justice Legal Foundation to curate and pursue national trial work advancing social justice and equity. 

• Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed an experimental drug that kills lymphoma cells and could work in other cancers that have an appetite for cholesterol.

• Startup Matchmaking, hosted last week by The Garage, brought founders together with students looking to join a team in industries ranging from international nonprofit to health tech.

Orfeo remote: A young musician takes a perilous trip to the underworld to bring his bride back to the world of the living in Northwestern Opera Theatre’s miniseries “Orfeo remote.” Catch episode three, “A Trip to Hell,” launching today.