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NMU viewbook wins CASE gold award

From Northern Michigan University Staff MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s most recent admissions viewbook, which is distributed to prospective students at high school and community college recruiting events and often serves as a “first impression” of NMU, has earned a ...

Nonbinary genders beyond ‘male’ and ‘female’ would have been no surprise to ancient rabbis

By SARAH IMHOFF Indiana University The Conversation “Genderqueer” and “nonbinary” are contemporary terms for people who don’t fit neatly into male or female categories. But acknowledging that not everyone fits neatly into those two groups has a much longer history than you might suspect. s a scholar of Judaism and gender, I find that people across the political spectrum often assume religion must be inherently conservative and unchanging when it comes to sex and gender. They imagine that religions have always embraced a world in which there are only men and women. But ...

Crustacean contributions

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University alumni Becca Fitch and Grace Krajenka have published their research projects in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, NMU announced. The students each worked for more than two years in the Cumberlidge Crustacean ...

Italian researchers reach the edge of space

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A team of Italian researchers reached the edge of space Thursday morning, flying aboard a rocket-powered plane piloted by Virgin Galactic as the space tourism company prepares for monthly commercial flights. The flight launched from Spaceport America in the New ...

NMU researching use of hemp to remediate PFAS-contamined soil

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University researchers are exploring the feasibility of using hemp to remediate soil contaminated with PFAS, a group of manufactured chemicals that make a wide range of industry and consumer products non-stick, greaseproof and flame retardant. PFAS are per- ...