Northwestern has named seven new members to its Board of Trustees, the University announced Sept. 9. The individuals are Wendy Abrams, Frank Cohen, José Almeida, Robert Hayward, Emily Heisley Stoeckel, Kristin McDonnell and Joey Wat. Although they all lead various companies and firms, their industries range from health care to fast food. Abrams (Kellogg ’90).
The Feinberg School of Medicine and Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics awarded their inaugural Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics to biochemist Jennifer Doudna, Northwestern announced Sept. 14. Doudna, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-developed CRISPR-Cas9, a technology that can alter DNA with significant precision. CRISPR holds promise for the treatment.
Mathematics Prof. Steve Zelditch died at the age of 68 on Sept. 11 after battling cancer, Northwestern announced Friday. Zelditch, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Mathematics, taught at NU for 12 years following a 25-year stint at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the.
When Medill freshman Angela Zhang finished her first year of college, she had all the journalism fundamentals under her belt. Without professional experience, though, she said she didn’t know what pathways to explore. Spending the summer in Los Angeles provided the convenient opportunity to attend the Asian American Journalists Association’s first in-person national convention in.
When Weinberg junior Vivica Lewis first learned the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she said she stayed off social media and avoided talking to people about the news because “it just hurt so bad.” Lewis has spent the summer working on a research project about the history of birth control access in countries across.