
Robert Schleimer, PhD, chief of Division of Medicine Allergy-Immunology and Roy Patterson Professor of Medicine, has been named the winner of the Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.

A $10 million gift from Ronald and JoAnne Willens to Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology will establish an interdisciplinary research center that will use advances in nanotechnology to develop new cancer treatments.

Northwestern University Trustee and alumnus Louis A. Simpson and his spouse Kimberly K. Querrey have made an additional $92 million gift to Northwestern University in support of the University’s biomedical research programs at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Rebecca Anderson, a graduate student in the Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences, received the Graduate Student Award from the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for her research on bone development to better understand skeletal dysplasia.

One new center and two new graduate medical school programs will expand opportunities in public health, global health and neurological surgery.

Clyde Yancy, MD, Magerstadt Professor and chief of Medicine-Cardiology, has been named Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, a newly created position that highlights the school’s commitment to an inclusive community of students, residents, fellows and faculty from diverse backgrounds.

Claude Steele, PhD, author of One Book One Northwestern selection “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do,” spoke to students about navigating stereotype threat as professionals.

David Baker, MD, MPH, Michael A. Gertz Professor of Medicine and chief of the division of Medicine-General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, will join the Joint Commission.

Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD, Buehler Professor of Geriatric Medicine, wrote about her own brush with cancer and the realization that physicians need to help patients feel joy in the present, rather than focusing primarily on maintaining their hope for the future.

Gregory E. Brisson, MD, ’94 GME, assistant professor of Clinical Medicine-General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, and colleagues published an article discussing the debate behind using electronic health records as a learning tool in medical education.