PROTEIN IN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS CONTROLS MALIGNANT TUMOR CELLS
A protein that governs development of human embryonic stem cells also inhibits the growth and spread of malignant melanoma, the deadliest skin cancer, Northwestern researchers led by Professor Mary J.C. Hendrix have discovered.

RESEARCHERS USE VIRTUAL PEERS IN WORKING WITH AUTISTIC CHILDREN
Using "virtual peers" -- animated life-sized children that simulate the behaviors and conversation of typically developing children -- Northwestern researchers led by Professor Justine Cassell are developing interventions designed to prepare children with autism for interactions with real-life children.

YOUR BRAIN ON KRISPY KREMES
New research led by Professor Marsel Mesulam reveals how hunger works in the brain and the way neurons pull your strings to lunge for the sweet fried dough. Krispy Kremes, in perhaps their first starring role in neurological research, helped lead to the discovery.
Audio: Aprajita Mohanty, post-doctoral fellow at the Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses research that reveals how hunger works in the brain.

ANN ADAMS NAMED TO RESEARCH INTEGRITY POST
Ann Adams has rejoined Northwestern as Associate Vice President for Research Integrity and Director of the Office for Research Integrity. She will lead the Office for Research Integrity in its ongoing efforts to ensure that Northwestern's culture embraces exemplary integrity and compliance in its research activities.

PNAS PAPER, AUTHORS HONORED FOR SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE
The editors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have awarded a paper by Monica Olvera de la Cruz and _Graziano Vernizzi from the department of materials science and engineering the prestigious 2007 Cozzarelli Prize.

LAW SCHOOL EXPANDS HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM
Darfur. Abu Ghraib. Myanmar. Occupied territories. Those words hint at the myriad controversies that have led to increased attention to international human rights. In response to the heightened interest and many inquiries from American lawyers, the School of Law is expanding its program in international human rights and criminal law.

Women's Sports:
TOP-RANKED LACROSSE OPENS CONFERENCE PLAY
No. 1 Northwestern (5-0) travels to Columbus to open its 2008 American Lacrosse Conference schedule against Ohio State March 14. The Wildcats then return home to face Massachusetts March 16 at Lakeside Field.
NO. 1 WOMEN'S TENNIS WINS, RESTS
Top-ranked Northwestern (13-1, 3-0) won its seventh-consecutive dual match in a 6-1 victory over Harvard last weekend. The Wildcats improve to 13-1 this season and are now on a two-week hiatus before resuming play March 25.

Subliminal Smells Bias Perception About a Person's Likeability - Wen Li, a post-doctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Seven New Members Join Northwestern Board of Trustees - including Bonnie S. Daniels, director at Management Systems International and Cheryle R. Jackson, president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Urban League, who are also both alumnae.

Martha Biondi on the Impact of a Possible Obama Presidency on Racial Relations: Martha Biondi is an associate professor of African-American Studies at Northwestern University and says an Obama election wouldn’t be an indicator that racism has been eliminated in the United States.

Cristina Traina on Mitt Romney and His Mormon Faith - Cristina Traina is an associate professor of religion at Northwestern University and says the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints views itself as a Christian tradition.

Linda Rubinowitz on Spanking - Linda Rubinowitz is a marriage and family therapist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University and says forms of spanking are currently legal for the most part throughout the United States.

Tenured, Tenure-Track Faculty Approved - including these 25 women: Catherine Belling, assistant professor of medical humanities and bioethics; Chonghui Cheng, assistant professor of medicine, division of hematology-oncology; Lifang Hou, assistant professor of preventative medicine; Xin (Lucy) Liu, assistant professor of pediatrics; Charulata Venkatesan, assistant professor of pediatrics; Nicole Immorlica, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science; Ana Kuzmanic, assistant professor of theatre; Deidre Soyini Madison, professor of performance studies; Dongsun Yim, assistant professor of communication science and disorders; Jeannette Colyvas, assistant professor of learning sciences and human development and social policy; Ana Aparicio, assistant professor of anthropology; Kathryn Bosher, assistant professor of classics; Nathalie Bouzaglo, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Joan Chiao, assistant professor of psychology; Mary Dietz, professor of political science and gender studies; Kyla Ebels Duggan, assistant professor of philosophy; Christine Helmer, professor of religion; Kelly Kaczynski, assistant professor of art theory and practice;Jennifer Lackey, associate professor of philosophy; Noelle Samia, assistant professor of statistics; Anne Sartori, associate professor of political science; Shalini Shankar, assistant professor of anthropology; Nitasha Tamar Sharma, assistant professor of African-American and Asian American Studies; Domietta Torlasco, assistant professor of French and Italian;

No. 7 Wildcats sweep singles matches (Women's Tennis)

BREAK A SWEAT TO KEEP WEIGHT OFF
A consistently high level of physical activity from young adulthood into middle age increases the odds of maintaining a stable weight and lessens the amount of weight gained over time, according to a new analysis led by Arlene Hankinson of the Feinberg School of Medicine.

HEARST MAGAZINE PRESIDENT ADVISES ON SUCCESS
Cathie Black, president of Hearst magazines, delivered a Crain Lecture last week and shared advice from her new book, "Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (And in Life)." (From Medill)

Scientists Find High-Fat Diet Disrupts Body Clock
A Northwestern and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare study has shown that overeating alters the core mechanism of the body clock, throwing off the timing of internal signals, including appetite control, critical for good health. Other authors of the paper include Kathryn Moynihan Ramsey, Carmela Estrada and Corrine Joshu, of Northwestern; Yumiko Kobayashi, of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare.

Veterans Memorial Dedicated
A memorial to Northwestern's military dead was dedicated in the narthex of Alice Millar Chapel during the observance of Veterans Day. The memorial, designed by Anita Ambriz, includes the names of Red Cross Nurses and other women veterans.

Kalogera Receives Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
Vicky Kalogera, associate professor of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2008 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from the American Physical Society.

Juvenile Defense in Illinois Well Below National Standards featuring Children and Family Justice Center's Cathryn Crawford, Bernardine Dohrn, CFJC director, and Marjorie Moss;

Forget the Glass Ceiling But Women Still Have a Long Way to Go

Dr. Virginia Kaklamani on Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Freshman Class Profile: The freshman class is composed of 53 percent women and 47 percent men, the same proportion as in the last 10 years.

Civil Defense Researcher Finds What's Old is New Again A new book exploring modern civil defense through the lens of performance by Tracy C. Davis, NU Barber Professor of Performing Arts and professor of English

Landmark National Grant Targets Infants, Young Girls, Women with Cancer

MOTHERS' ROOM OPENS IN CHICAGO

A New Movie Brings Out Throngs of Black Women
The New York Times, Oct. 13; featuring sociology PhD candidate Zandria Robinson

FIELD HOCKEY: NU Takes Final Homestand This Weekend

Clinics Treat Swallowing Disorders, Other Disabilities Highlights the work of Nina Kraus PhD, Lowery Mayo, Jeri Logemann PhD and Paula McGuire.

DAISY BATES Sept. 24, was the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock, Ark. school desegregation. Daisy Bates, local NAACP leader and businesswoman, recruited and led nine African American teenagers through hordes of angry people to desegregate the all-white school. Bates lost a lot as she struggled for civil rights—she and her husband lost their newspaper business and became targets of the Ku Klux Klan. But Bates was not only a victim of racism but sexism as well, which kept her from taking the podium at the famous March on Washington several years later, according to an op-ed in the New York Times. Women asked for but were denied a speaking representative, and the only women onstage were singing or silently sitting.

Clinics Treat Swallowing Disorders, Other Disabilities Highlights the work of Nina Kraus PhD, Lowery Mayo, Jeri Logemann PhD and Paula McGuire.

Landmark National Grant Targets Infants, Young Girls, Women with Cancer

MOTHERS' ROOM OPENS IN CHICAGO

"Peace will be lasting only if it is built on two solid pillars: social justice and democracy."
-Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the first Iranian & the first Muslim woman to receive the prize

THREE-PEAT! Northwestern Captures NCAA Title With 15-13 Win Over Virginia

Five Faculty Receive McCormick Teaching Awards Martina Bode, senior lecturer in mathematics, has been named the Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer.

Females Struggle for Tenure

Linda Teplin Tracks Health of Youth Who Fall Between the Cracks

Black Middle Class Key Brokers in Politics of Race, Class in City Mary Pattillo, professor of sociology and African American Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, is one of the first academics to study the black middle class.

Student Sexually Assaulted

"Program Helps Young Women Explore Future Careers" - Northwestern Daily

Seven recognized for mentoring women - The Women's Center's 20th Anniversary Awards recipients

Women The Hidden Victims Of African Conflicts

Sarah Fraser Awarded Getty Institute Fellowship

Water Works - An Adaptation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

Last Shot For Senior Class (Women's Softball) Cats' Miller leads under the radar

The Untouchables (Women's Lacrosse) NU captures conference tournament

NU Prof Designs Simulator For Intimate Medical Exams Prof. Dr. Carla Pugh, the associate director for the Center of Advanced Surgical Education, invented a pelvic exam simulator

Students take vow of silence to protest LGBT discrimination

Students come together, mourn Virginia Tech victims

Thompson Receives Walder Award for Research Excellence

Health Costs of Globalization for Indigenous People - maternal knowledge about plants is closely linked to health outcomes for indigenous children in Bolivia

Former Gator Dominating Cats' Doubles Scene (Women's Tennis)

Freshman Adapting to College Ball (Softball)

Women's Tennis Win

Women's Lacrosse on a 10-win Streak

Price of Birth Control to Rise on Campus & Fight for Birth Control in the Daily

Barbara J. Newman named Ver Steeg Distinguished Fellow
Newman is known for her work on medieval religious culture and women's spirituality.

How Do Humans Process Information? from the Observer
Dedre Gentner, professor of psychology and education, and director of the Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern, directs the new Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center.

Disabled hit roadblocks seeking routine health care from the Observer
Kristi Kirschner, M.D., associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, and of medical humanities and bioethics at Feinberg, was lead author of a recent commentary in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) that identified structural problems encountered by disabled patients and offered a blueprint for overdue change.

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