Tag: Awards

New Feinberg School Web Site Launched The much-anticipated redesigned Feinberg School Web site was officially launched November 15. The site offers a new look for the home page and second-level pages, improved search capability and navigation, and more content. Templates for third-level (department) pages also have been developed. The new home page offers links for[…]

Annual State of the School Address Slated Faculty and staff members and students will have an opportunity to hear from the Feinberg School’s top leaders during the State of the School Address Thursday, November 21, from 2–4 p.m. in Turnbull Auditorium, 303 East Chicago Avenue on the Chicago campus. Sponsored by the school’s Staff Relations[…]

November 11, 2002 Northwestern Receives $5 Million to Study Polycystic Ovary Syndrome CHICAGO— Northwestern University has been awarded more than $5 million by the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health to establish a Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) to study polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a disorder associated with irregular menstrual periods,[…]

November 4, 2002 Aging Doesn’t Affect Language Processing CHICAGO— Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of the brain show that despite the decrease in brain activity that naturally occurs in aging, particularly in the language areas of the left frontal lobe, some types of language processing may be performed more efficiently in older individuals. Results[…]

November 4, 2002 Dr. Bertozzi to Speak at Drug Discovery Symposium CHICAGO— Award-winning scientist Carolyn R. Bertozzi, PhD, of the University of California at Berkeley will be the keynote speaker for the seventh annual Northwestern University Drug Discovery Program Symposium from 4–5 p.m. Wednesday, November 13, in the Ward Building of The Feinberg School of[…]

November 4, 2002 HHS Official to Give Feinberg Lecture CHICAGO— Eve E. Slater, MD, assistant secretary of health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be the speaker at the eighth annual Frances Feinberg Memorial Lecture at Northwestern University at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 21, in the third floor conference center of[…]

November 4, 2002 Program Helps Hepatitis C Patients BOSTON— A new cognitive behavioral therapy strategy developed by Schering-Plough improves compliance among patients with hepatitis C (HCV) who are receiving the pegylated interferon-based combination therapy Peg-Intron® and Rebetol® (ribavirin), according to a Northwestern University study. Steven L. Flamm, MD, associate professor of medicine and of surgery[…]

In Memoriam (Jane Eckenhoff, Paul Lazar, Susan Orden) Jane Mackey Eckenhoff, who served as secretary of the Alumni Office at Northwestern’s medical school from 1970–84, died October 12 at home in LaPorte, Indiana, of lung cancer. She was 72. Raised in South Bend, Indiana, Jane Mackey came to Chicago in the late 1950s and worked[…]

October 28, 2002 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or at tlk@northwestern.edu   Culture Bus Serves Alzheimer’s Patients CHICAGO— A unique new program developed by the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University and the Council for Jewish Elderly enables persons with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease to participate in innovative activities involving[…]