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At Fordham University — the private, Jesuit institution in the Bronx — decades worth of archival documents and artifacts from the local Jewish community have found a home

Fordham University and its Jewish studies department are collecting the quotidian artifacts of a once-thriving Jewish community.

This years Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for click chemistry, which involves snapping together smaller molecules to form larger and more complex ones.

Washington University in St. Louis will award five honorary degrees during its 161st Commencement May 20. Among the recipients is Mae Jemison, MD, who will deliver the Commencement address. Jemison was the first woman of color to become a NASA astronaut and to travel into space. During the ceremony, which will begin at 9 a.m. on Francis Olympic Field, the university also will bestow academic degrees on approximately 3,800 members of the Class of 2022.

City crews remove RV from a lot on Silas Creek where a court-ordered demolition was carried out in 2021.

Two researchers from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) are amongst the co-founders of an exciting new biotechnology company

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Septerna has science from a Nobel laureate and technology that finds new ways to drug GPCRs, well-validated receptors targeted by about one-third of FDA-approved medicines. According to CEO Jeff Finer, the startup is kicking off a second golden age of GPCR drug development.

Benjamin List and David MacMillan have won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a tool that makes constructing molecules simpler and greener.