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Zebrafish May Help Solve Ringing In Vets’ Ears Ernest Moore, an audiologist and cell biologist at Northwestern University, developed tinnitus—a chronic ringing and whooshing sound in his ears—twenty years ago after serving in the U.S. Army reserves medical corps. His hearing was damaged by the crack of too many M16 rifles and artillery explosions. He[…]

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[…]

Flanked by Dean Jameson (left) and Dr. Chisholm are the research poster presentation award winners (from left) Drs. Rongxue Wu (third place, basic sciences), Kazunari Nohara (first-place tie, women’s health), Min Cheng (second place, basic science), Milan Joksimovic (first place, basic science), Jacqueline S. Jeruss (first-place tie, women’s health), Robert J. McCarthy, (second place, clinical)[…]

Medical Students Find Rewards in Mentoring High School Girls Fourteen Feinberg School of Medicine students recently found that giving up their rare time off to mentor young women considering careers in medicine really had nothing to do with giving up at all. Turns out, they were the ones on the receiving end. The medical students[…]

Anita Chase from the deans administration plays an original tune, “Ride.” She performs around town as a solo artist and as part of the rock group ½ Mad Poet. Research assistant professor of cell and molecular biology Gabriella Sekerkova shows off some of her work to an appreciative Claudia Moreno, who earlier demonstrated her own[…]