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June 12, 2003 Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel at 847/491-4892 or atp-tremmel@northwestern.edu Study on Differences in Female, Male Sexuality EVANSTON, ILL.— Three decades of research on men’s sexual arousal show patterns that clearly track sexual orientation—gay men overwhelmingly become sexually aroused by images of men and heterosexual men by images of women. In other words, men’s[…]

VA Chicago Moves Inpatient Care to West Side Division On August 7all inpatient care at the VA Chicago Health Care System—Lakeside Division, located on Northwestern University’s Chicago campus, will move to the VA West Side Division, located on Chicago’s Near West Side. The Department of Veterans Affairs is carrying out its Capital Asset Realignment for[…]

Reuben Feinberg Portrait Hangs in Ward Lobby Reuben Feinberg, the Chicago businessman whose generosity led to the renaming of Northwestern’s medical school to the Feinberg School of Medicine in February 2002, will be known to future generations of medical students and faculty and staff members, thanks to a portrait of him that hangs in the[…]

Honors Program Selects Students for Entering Class Northwestern University’s baccalaureate/MD degree program, in which students complete three years of undergraduate work on the Evanston campus before entering the Feinberg School, has completed the admissions process for next fall’s entering class. A total of 509 applicants (up from 398 in 2002) vied for 45 available positions.[…]

Northwestern Welcomes New Residents and Fellows At the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, 250 new residents were welcomed during orientation sessions held at the member hospitals. On June 16, 28 residents began programs (pediatrics, pediatric neurology, and child and adolescent psychiatry) at Children’s Memorial Hospital (CMH), located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.[…]

Five Departments Make NIH Top 20 List Five departments at the Feinberg School have been ranked among the top 20 by the National Institutes of Health for total NIH funding in 2002. The Department of Urology, chaired by Anthony J. Schaeffer, MD, Herman L. Kretschmer Professor of Urology, was ranked third among U.S. urology departments,[…]

May 20, 2003 $6.8 Million Grant Funds Alzheimer’s Study CHICAGO— Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has received a $6.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to unravel the molecular triggers that cause overactivation of glia brain cells that leads to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and other diseases. Glia are important cells[…]

Cancer Survivors’ Walk Draws 4,000 Approximately 4,000 cancer survivors, friends, family members, and others touched by cancer participated in the 10th Annual Cancer Survivors’ Celebration and Walk, which kicked off June 1 at 9 a.m. at Chicago’s Grant Park. The five-mile, lakefront walk was sponsored by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern[…]

Northwestern Remembers Reuben Feinberg “A straight-talking, unassuming, and generous man….who enjoyed life….who was committed to improving health care for the people of Chicago….who gave Northwestern a big boost.” These were among the many attributes describing Reuben Feinberg heard by friends, colleagues, and family members when they gathered May 19 in Thorne Auditorium on Northwestern University’s[…]

May 5, 2003 Foundation Gift Funds Virology Research Center CHICAGO— The Drucker Family Foundation has made a $5 million gift to Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine through the Midwest AIDS Foundation/Engle Fund to create the Fred and Norman A. Drucker Virology Research Laboratories at the medical school. The labs will occupy the entire 12th[…]