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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LENDS STUDENTS’ BRAINS TO SCIENCE, TO BENEFIT CHICAGO FAMILIES
Free Citywide “Brain Fair” will Provide Hundreds of Chicago Families with Experiences that Bring Neuroscience to Life
From a flash of light in the deepest trenches of the ocean floor to a red tide bloom set aglow in the moonlight, bioluminescence enlivens many ocean organisms, from angler fish and jellyfish to tiny single-celled organisms.
By Kelly Pflaum, Medill Reports
Nuclear energy continues to play an important role in meeting U.S. energy needs, the source of 20 percent of the country’s elelctricity.
Yet it will be 20 to 30 years before we can expect to see a major revival in the nuclear energy industry, according to Rober Rosner, director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago.
Current policy and the safety and cost of operations all present challenges to the future of nuclear energy, Rosner said at a recent nuclear energy program sponsored by the Chicago Council on Science and Technology.
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Seventy years ago on December 2, 1942, 49 scientists at the University of Chicago, led by Enrico Fermi, made history when Chicago Pile 1 (CP-1) went critical and produced the world’s first self-sustaining, controlled nuclear chain reaction.
PLUG YOUR PEER REVIEWED PAPER is a new blog series where we recognize new members and donors by uploading their peer reviewed paper to our website. Read here about a Magnetic Resonance Imaging research paper written by Robert A. Kleps et al., titled: A Sex-Specific Metabolite Identified in a Marine Invertebrate Utilizing Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
By Stephanie Novak and Brooke Workneh
Harvard-trained neuroscientist Lisa Genova broke into fiction after watching the progression of her grandmother’s Alzheimer’s disease. In a talk at Northwestern University Tuesday, Genova discussed Alzheimer’s and aging and the inspiration behind her bestselling novel, “Still Alice.” Before the program, we spoke with the author about the book she based on her grandmother’s illness. Genova continues to merge neuroscience and fiction in her novels, she said. Her lecture, followed by a panel discussion, was sponored by the Chicago Council on Science and Technology. Genova lives in Cape Cod with her husband and three children.
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