2008 Fall Quarter Research News and Honors

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Researchers Discover Personal Trainer For Your Memory
Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered the brain protein kalirin-7 is critical for learning and remembering.

Northwestern Study Looks at Sensing, Movement and Behavior
Northwestern researchers are the first to clearly quantify the stopping motor volume (the amount of space it takes for an animal -- including one in a vehicle -- to come to a complete stop) and sensory volume (the amount of space an animal senses around it) for any animal.

Race, Ethnicity, Parent Education Predict Facebook Use
New research from Northwestern finds that college students' choice of social networking sites -- including Facebook, MySpace and Xanga -- is related to their race, ethnicity and parents' education.

Researchers Double Cell Phone Memory
Computer engineers at Northwestern and NEC Laboratories America, Inc. are the first to do what many thought impossible -- they have developed technology that doubles the usable memory on cell phones and other embedded systems without any changes to hardware or applications.