For some Northwestern community members from less walkable cities around the country, downtown Evanston provides a welcome change. According to Walk Score, a website that provides local amenity guides for different cities and towns, Evanston is “very walkable” and has a walkability score of 76. McCormick Prof. Joseph Schofer said Evanston has done well in.
A new therapy could treat Phelan-McDermid syndrome, a rare subtype of autism spectrum disorder, according to a December study by a group of Northwestern researchers. Before the study, there was no drug or therapy specifically designed to treat patients with Phelan-McDermid syndrome. The new therapeutic drug addresses cognitive function and motor behavior deficiencies, among other.
Chemistry Prof. Todd Gingrich and Feinberg Prof. Ann Kennedy have been awarded the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship, honoring their innovation and research contributions, the University announced Wednesday. The two-year fellowship — which is awarded annually to 125 early-career researchers across seven fields — grants winners $75,000 each to advance their research. Kennedy, whose laboratory studies.
Chemistry Prof. Samuel I. Stupp has received the 2022 Von Hippel Award, Northwestern announced Tuesday. The award is the highest honor given by the Materials Research Society, a professional organization for materials researchers, engineers and scientists. It recognizes “brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines,” according.
Internationally, the population of older people is the largest it has ever been. Cases of aging-related diseases grow in tandem with this trend, but until recently, research on them has primarily focused on dementia. But an initiative from the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease at the Feinberg School of Medicine is taking.