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April 12, 2004 Accepted Students Take a “Second Look” at the School Approximately 150 prospective students accepted to the Feinberg School’s incoming Class of 2008 will take a second look at the school as part of “Second Look Weekend.” The annual revisit weekend for accepted students begins with a welcome reception on Thursday evening, April[…]

April 8, 2004 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Stem Cells Used in Bone Marrow Research CHICAGO— Researchers at Northwestern University have devised a method to induce embryonic stem cells to develop into bone marrow and blood cells. Injecting the stem cells into the bone marrow cavity of mice whose bone[…]

April 8, 2004 Trauma Highly Prevalent Among Delinquents CHICAGO— Almost every boy and girl currently detained in a juvenile facility in the United States has experienced at least one major trauma, and a large proportion of these children have post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.[…]

April 9, 2004 RIC Delivers Revolutionary Wheelchair The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) has become one of the first U.S. distributors of a power wheelchair that can climb and descend stairs; traverse sand, gravel, and grass; navigate over 4-inch curbs; and rise on two wheels. Mike D’Arcy of Plainfield, Illinois (shown here with his family),[…]

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[…]

Medical Students Meet Their Matches On March 18, “Match Day,” fourth-year Feinberg School of Medicine students learned where they will be going for the next phase of their medical careers. The day marked the culmination of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) in which graduating medical students are matched with residency positions in the specialties[…]

In Memoriam (Michael Ravitch) Michael M. Ravitch, PhD, associate professor and former director of the Office of Medical Education at the Feinberg School of Medicine, died February 27 in his Evanston, Illinois, home; he was 61. A native of Baltimore, Dr. Ravitch began undergraduate studies at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, wanting to[…]

Longtime Leader of Student Affairs Office to Step Down Compassionate. Understanding. Leader. Friend. Advocate. Words like these pepper conversations about Jack F. Snarr, PhD ’67, associate dean for student programs, who will be stepping down July 1 after 28 years in the position. What students and graduates see as special in Dr. Snarr is simply[…]

Better Analysis Needed for Breast Cancer Treatment Treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)—a group of abnormal cells confined to the breast ducts—varies widely in the United States. Treatment ranges from potential overtreatment with aggressive surgical therapy to possible undertreatment by not providing radiation. In the absence of data that allow identification of women with[…]

CARDIA Marks 20th Year They say youth is often wasted on the young. Yet, when it comes to reducing coronary heart disease, it is the young who may have the most to gain from following healthy lifestyles starting in their youth, according to findings of the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.[…]