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Cancer Walk Draws 4,000 Survivors, Friends Approximately 4,000 cancer survivors, family members, and friends participated in the 11th annual Cancer Survivors’ Walk and Celebration on June 6. Organized by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, the five-mile lakefront walk, which began at Grant Park in downtown Chicago, included 1,000 cancer survivors[…]

May 19, 2004 Mechanism Found That May Protect Kidneys in Early Stages of Diabetes CHICAGO— A group of Northwestern University researchers has identified what they believe is a built-in biological mechanism that prevents kidney damage in the early stages of diabetes associated with obesity. Their study was led by Daniel C. Batlle, MD, Earle, del[…]

Job Fair Slated for May 26 The Feinberg School of Medicine hopes to repeat the success of last year’s job fair, which brought more than 1,800 resumes for 107 positions, with the fourth annual “open house recruitment event” on May 26 from 3–6 p.m. in the Method Atrium of the Chicago campus, 300 East Superior[…]

April 19, 2004 Alumni Weekend Kicks Off April 23 More than 400 Northwestern medical alumni and their guests are expected at this year’s Alumni Weekend. Slated for April 23–24, the event will highlight all that is new at the Feinberg School of Medicine via presentations, campus tours, and interactive demos. Jeffrey C. Miller, senior executive[…]

April 12, 2004 Feinberg School Annual Report Available Online “On Course,” the 2002–03 annual report of the Feinberg School of Medicine, is now available online at www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/ar2003/. In addition to providing statistics about the school’s progress in its education, research, and clinical service missions, the annual report explores the role of mentoring in keeping the[…]

April 26, 2004 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Aha! Cognitive Neuroscientists Reveal Creative Brain Processes EVANSTON, ILL.— Think Isaac Newton getting hit on the head with an apple or Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone. While these creative or “Aha!” moments often are associated with scientific discoveries and inventions, most people occasionally[…]

April 14, 2004 April 20 Marks Lecture by Internationally Renowned Geneticist The Feinberg School’s Center for Genetic Medicine hosts a free public lecture by internationally known geneticist David Botstein, PhD, on April 20, from 4–5 p.m., in Turnbull Auditorium, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Ward 1-074, on the Chicago campus. Dr. Botstein, Anthony B. Evnin Professor[…]

April 9, 2004 “NU Explores” Travels to Washington Feinberg School of medicine faculty members Rex L. Chisholm, PhD, and John A. Kessler, MD, continue their travels for “NU Explores” on May 12, when they and Mark A. Ratner, PhD, professor of chemistry, will present “Small is Big: Science That’s Changing the Quality of Your Life”[…]

April 26, 2004 Medical Alumni Honored During Reunion Weekend At the Reunion Ball on April 24, the closing event of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s annual Alumni Weekend, pediatric endocrinologist Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, MD (shown here with Dean Lewis Landsberg, MD), received this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award. She credited Northwestern for instilling in her a[…]

  In this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings of research-oriented medical schools, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has moved up one place from last year, from 21st to 20th, tying with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The criteria for ranking research-oriented schools are research funding (30 percent), student selectivity[…]