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Northwestern Now Search committee established to find the next Northwestern president Committee of 36 members, representing the University’s many stakeholder groups, will seek broad input from across the Northwestern community The Presidential Search Committee has been appointed to advise the Board of Trustees in selecting the University’s next president, Board Chair J. Landis Martin announced today. Last month, President Morton Schapiro announced that he will conclude his tenure on Aug. 31, 2022. Since he took office in September 2009 as the 16th president in Northwestern’s 170-year hi...

Share this article Share this article BETHESDA, Md., April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) welcomed five new directors, including a new president-elect, to its Board of Directors at the 2021 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting – A Virtual Experience. The new Board members will serve as advocates for the organization and will assist in shaping and implementing the mission, vision, and direction of the College. The five newly elected directors will serve six-year terms from April 2021 to March 2027. "I have enjoyed the chance to meet ou...

 E-Mail IMAGE: (left to right) Kimryn Rathmell, Bradley Reinfeld, Matthew Madden and Jeffrey Rathmell have discovered that immune cells -- not cancer cells -- are the major glucose consumers in the tumor... view more  Credit: Susan Urmy/VUMC Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of cancer metabolism that have been developed and refined over the last 100 years. Instead, non-cancer cells in a tumor -- primarily immune cells called macrophages -- have the highest gluco...

New approach can advance medical AI algorithms, reduce risks to patient privacy Within the field of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning is an area of rapid and high-impact innovation in the healthcare industry. Being able to successfully train computers to perform medical tasks has extraordinary potential to improve patient care, increase access, and reduce costs. Researchers at UCLA have already developed AI systems that have had significant value in helping physicians more accurately detect cancers. However, one major challenge in developing high-quality AI algorithms is the availab...

March 1 update: The University of Iowa's Reimagining Campus Safety action committee is no longer requiring a HawkID in order to provide feedback on the group's prototypes.  The group is accepting feedback until 5 p.m Friday. To learn more about the prototypes and to submit feedback, visit their website: StudentLife.uiowa.edu/initiatives/reimagining-campus-safety/feedback. This story was originally published on Thursday, Feb. 18. Read the original report below: Members of the University of Iowa community began providing feedback this month to proposed public safety models that a committee ...