Does your toddler show little interest in communicating with others? Does your 2-year-old not yet communicate with words? Is your 3-year-old's speech difficult to understand? If so, your child may need the services of a speech-language pathologist.
If musicals are back, as newspaper headlines are proclaiming, Northwestern theatre graduates are out there winning the roles that make these shows sing. "It's been another incredible year for Northwestern," says Dominic Missimi, the director of the music theatre program and an associate professor in Northwestern's legendary theatre department.
What do the 1923 Teapot Dome Scandal and the current White House crisis have in common? Plenty, according to Gary Fine, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University who is writing a book on reputation politics.
Audio recordings of arguments in Clinton v. Jones before the U.S. Supreme Courts can now be heard on the Supreme Court Web site developed by Jerry Goldman, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University.
Forget that adage about how men sweat but women perspire. We all sweat, and it's a good thing we do. Sweating controls body temperature. But some people -- about 1 percent of the population -- sweat copiously following mild stimulation or none at all. They suffer from a disorder called hyperhidrosis, a condition that that can be relieved with surgery.
Northwestern University professors who held opposing positions arguing an abortion case before the Supreme Court are available to offer perspective on Roe v Wade and a Northwestern website offers oral arguments from the historical case.
In a landmark study for space-based observation of the motions of the earth's crust, geologists have used the same satellite navigation system used to guide motorists to monitor the movement of an entire continent and record the yearly growth of the Andes Mountains to within a fraction of an inch.
Astronomers have observed a swoosh of hot, ionized gas streaming toward the extremely dense object at the center of the Milky Way, bending sharply around it and slingshoting out the other side.
A partnership between two universities and two public school systems has been established to develop new models for advanced teaching and learning that use computing and communication technologies.
An enzyme present in extremely low quantities in normal brains has been found to be greatly increased in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Northwestern University researchers found that the enzyme, butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), increases at the stage when beta-amyloid plaques in the brain become compact and insoluble. These insoluble plaques are one of two early pathological markers of Alzheimer's disease.
Minority freshmen taking part in Northwestern University's Mentoring Program this academic year will be teamed up soon with alumni mentors. Minority freshmen taking part in Northwestern University's Mentoring Program this academic year will be teamed up soon with alumni mentors.
In an era of spin doctors and media handlers, high profile agents and power publicists, the public's awareness of celebrity is greater than ever.
Even on a Saturday, it's not surprising to find dedicated scientists hunched over microscopes in Northwestern University's Searle Medical Research Building, oblivious to the attractions of Lake Michigan and the Magnificent Mile, both just steps away on Chicago's near north side. What may be surprising are some of the faces behind the microscopes: a dozen or so teenagers, mostly Hispanic and African-American, who, on the remaining days of the week, live a world away in that other Chicago, the Chicago of struggling public schools and limited opportunities.
Researchers at Northwestern University Medical School have found that a chemical in red wine believed to help reduce risk for heart disease is a form of estrogen. The substance, resveratrol, is highly concentrated in the skin of grapes and is abundant in red wine.
Heavy metal ions are toxic but nevertheless required by cells in tiny amounts. A special "chaperone" protein encases one of these hazardous materials, copper, to safely escort it through the cell to the specific site where needed. Other essential metals, such as zinc and iron, may have their own chaperones.
The world can now hear history in the making during one of the most important events of the cold war -- the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis -- on the World Wide Web.
The Supreme Court will soon be in session, and thanks to another new Internet project by a Northwestern University political scientist, you can take a tour of the Court without ever leaving home.
Researchers have found that an endogenous peptide can reduce both hormonal and behavioral manifestations of human stress.
Researchers at Northwestern University have constructed a tiny nanoscale phototonic resonator that is a hundred times smaller than the cross-section of a human hair--so small that it can only be seen with an electron microscope. When combined with an equally tiny semiconductor laser, these components can form nanoscale photonic integrated circuits that are a thousant times smaller than those currently in use, and which should be cheaper to fabricated and more efficient to use.
Two new joint degree programs, one designed to strengthen the science and technology backround of science writers, and a second to train students in designing computer-based educational materials
Scientists at Northwestern University have cloned and identified a gene for the circadian clock in a mouse, the first such gene to be identified at the molecular level in a mammal.
A new look at a famous Chicago study on nutrition and heart disease further documents that men who ate a moderate amount of fish had a lower risk for dying of a heart attack than men who did not eat fish. Embargoed: 4/9/97
Two geologists, from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, have demonstrated that an adjustment to one of those models --- involving reducing the assumed thickness of the tectonic plate --- allows the model to fit the data much more precisely.
Northwestern University Medical School researchers have launched a study to determine the effectiveness of melatonin to relieve insomnia in the initial weeks of ProzacÆ therapy. They believe the hormone melatonin may not only improve sleep but also diminish depression that has been exacerbated by sleep deprivation.
About 40,000 people in the U.S. have severe reactions that simulate allergic reactions but where no external cause is involved. They show up in emergency rooms and doctors' offices with sneezing, itchy nose, rashes or hives and spasms in the bronchial tubes that make it difficult to breathe and swallow. Without immediate diagnosis and special treatment, many of these patients could die.
Silicaon is one of the most common elements on earth, yet its surface structure is probably the most complicated of all --- a three-layered geometric construction of atoms with tiny holes at the peaks. Researchers at Northwestern University and the NEC Corporation in Japan have made the clearest images to date of this complex surface.
The influenza virus reproduces itself by pushing out a portion of a cell's outer membrane and pinching it off --- creating a new viral paricle than can go on to infect another cell. Just how the virus succeeds in pushing out the membrane has been clsarified by researchers at Northwestern University
With a little more than spit and a sponge, researchers at Northwestern University Medical School can now test whether an ndividual is experiencing physical or emotional stress. The test measures concentration of an enzyme, called amylase, in saliva. Researh has shown that salivary amylase concentration reflects the body's level of catecholamines, substances produced by the sympathetic nervous system in response to stress.
Experiments with hamsters show that exposure to bright light blocks the effects of serotonin in the brain, acording to a letter in Thursday's Nature.
Nevirapine, a potent new drug used to treat HIV-infected patients, can be safely used in combination with protease inhibitors, according to one of the nation's leading AIDS researchers. Nevirapine is a member of a class of antiretroviral drugs called non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Embargoed: Friday, Jan. 24, 1997, at 9 a.m. EST
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