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Rosenzweig receives MacArthur Fellowship
Northwestern biochemist Amy C. Rosenzweig has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
Drucker Family gift establishes virology labsThe Drucker Family Foundation has made a $5 million gift to Northwestern through the Midwest AIDS Foundation/Engle Fund to create the Fred and Norman A. Drucker Virology Research Laboratories at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Programs added in landscape design and management
A series of new Landscape Design and Management certificate programs jointly offered by The Morton Arboretum and Northwestern will help landscape professionals reap profits from the gardens they sow. The classes are taught at both Northwestern’s Evanston campus and the Arboretum in Lisle. Eggers, Crain, Weiss lectures are scheduledDave Eggers, the writer who burst onto the literary landscape with the publication of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” will speak about Mark Twain and Twain’s work at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13. IT NewsPianist O’Riley, Nickel Creek will perform at Pick-StaigerMusic with a stylistic twist will be performed this fall when classical pianist Christopher O’Riley presents a concert of Radiohead music (Oct. 11) and the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass trio Nickel Creek perform a fusion of alternative rock, pop and folk works (Nov. 5).
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Faculty honorsBarbara J. O'Keefe, Kasturi Haldar and Wing Kam Liu Findings may lead to design of new drugsScientists at Northwestern have acquired new insight into how a specialized sensor protein that acts as an early warning system detects dangerous amounts of the “coinage metals” — silver, gold and copper — inside cells. For the first time, researchers can explain this important mechanism at the atomic level. NewsfeedGreg Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education, discusses poverty.
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Recent awards top $11MThe Office of Research and Sponsored Programs reports |
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Staff profile: Jeffrey Aaberg
On the job: Rodney Greene
Benefits Fair is Oct. 14The ninth annual Health and Benefits Fair Tuesday (Oct. 14) will provide faculty, staff, students and alumni with a forum to learn about health plan options — including premium rates, co-payments, coverage changes and a new HMO, Aetna HMO — and other benefit plan options.
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