Alums Enjoy Their Visit “Home” More than 500 medical school alumni returned to campus this past weekend to renew old friendships, make some new ones, and reconnect with their alma mater. Among the 35 events scheduled during the weekend, highlights included tours of the new Prentice Women’s Hospital and the NBC5-TV studios, as well as…

Public Invited to Free Alzheimer’s Program May 8 CHICAGO — The public is invited to attend a free Alzheimer’s Day program Thursday, May 8, at which they’ll hear about the latest research and treatments, and have the opportunity to talk to researchers and clinicians from the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center of Northwestern University’s…

Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Alice Dreger, PhD Alice D. Dreger, PhD, associate professor, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, has been awarded a fellowship in support of her work in the history of medicine by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded for outstanding success and extraordinary promise for continued accomplishment.” Dr. Dreger’s…