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News and Honors

CenterPiece Live
Northwestern's Office for Research is hosting the second annual CenterPiece Live on May 23, between 9 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. at the McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston.

Zebrafish May Help Solve Ringing in Vets' Ears
Ernest Moore, a research professor of molecular pharmacology and audiologist, is researching tinnitus in zebrafish.

New Study Tests Islet Transplants for Severe Diabetes
Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital are launching a clinical trial for islet transplantation for adults with difficult to control type 1 diabetes.

New 'Fingerprinting' May Reveal Causes of High Blood Pressure
Scientists at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in collaboration with colleagues at Imperial College in London, have for the first time identified multiple chemicals in peoples' urine, called metabolites, which have a direct relation to blood pressure.

Five Elected Fellows of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Five faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.

NSF Director to Speak at Symposium Honoring Achenbach, Marks
Northwestern University will host a special daylong symposium May 14 to honor the accomplishments of faculty members Jan D. Achenbach and Tobin J. Marks

New Hazard Estimates Could Downplay Earthquake Dangers
The dangers posed by a major earthquake in the New Madrid and Charleston, S.C., zones in the Midwestern and Southern parts of the United States may be noticeably lower than current estimates, according to a study presented by a Northwestern seismologist.

Five Northwestern Professors Receive Guggenheims
Five Northwestern faculty members have received 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships. They are among only 190 Guggenheim recipients chosen from 2,600 applicants in the United States and Canada.

Interim Associate Vice President for Research Operations Named
Don E. Workman, the current executive director of the Office for the Protection of Research Subjects, has been appointed to serve as interim associate vice president for research operations (AVP-RO).

Nobel Laureate to Address World’s Energy Problem May 2
Steve Chu, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics and is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, will deliver the keynote address at the Northwestern-Argonne Energy Symposium Friday, May 2.