A recommendation that mutual fund boards should not permit fund advisers to participate in soft dollar arrangements in trades for funds is among 32 recommendations to mutual fund directors presented in a new report by the Mutual Fund Directors Forum to the SEC.
A study is the first to suggest that delayed brain development and its interaction with puberty may be key factors contributing to language-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
Northwestern University is believed to be the only university in the country offering its faculty and students the opportunity to view 3-D images of Mars from NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers as a component to enhance the classroom experience and for research purposes.
When you see a small child try to fit into or on top of a doll-sized toy, you're likely to laugh. But investigators decided to take a serious look at why youngsters make such dramatic mistakes about scale.
New research, shows that subconscious -- or implicit -- bias can emerge cause even well-meaning whites to look at identical facial expressions of African Americans and European Americans and see greater hostility in the African American faces.
According to an editorial, the link between chronic inflammation and colon cancer must be further explored before C-reactive protein is confirmed as a risk predictor.
One of the newest tools in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease and stroke combines a 40-year-old imaging technique and liposomes, little globules of soluble fats and water that circulate naturally throughout the bloodstream.
Two scientists, a geologist and a neurobiologist, are available to comment on President Bush's plan to send humans to the moon and Mars.
Experts available to speak about the Jose Padilla ruling and Saddam Hussein prosecution
Fitness in early adulthood greatly reduces the likelihood of developing high blood pressure and diabetes -- both major risk factors for heart disease and stroke -- in middle age, a new study has found.
A recent discovery of a double neutron-star system has helped to increase astronomers' chances at collecting the information they need to better understand the black holes and neutron stars in our Galaxy. Neutron star pairs may merge and give off a burst of gravitational waves about six times more often than previously thought.
Studies report that red wine and dark chocolate in moderation can be good for you. Now it appears that a little stress may be beneficial, too. Scientists have shown that elevated levels of special protective proteins that respond to stress in a cell (molecular chaperones) promote longevity.
A new book by two sociologists, from Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, turns the "market" defense of job discrimination upside down, while pointing out the inherent flaws in fighting pay discrimination with a "comparable worth" remedy.
The most accessible and authoritative collection of United States Supreme Court oral arguments is now available on a CD-ROM, thanks to a new electronic project created by a Northwestern University political scientist.
An anti-violence initiative at a suburban Chicago high school aims to decrease violence not only at the school but in the communities in which the students reside.
The risk posed by large earthquakes in the Midwest's New Madrid seismic zone to cities such as Memphis and St. Louis is much lower than previously thought, according to a new study that used the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to track the motions of the ground in the seismic zone.
Although hearing loss is among the most common chronic conditions in women, the vast majority of women fail to include hearing testing in their routine health care, according to two Northwestern researchers who recently completed the first major study exclusively focused on hearing in women.
Engineering has trailed other professions in attracting women into its ranks. Women now account for a quarter of physicians and lawyers, but only about one in 10 engineers. Now in its 30th year, a career workshop at Northwestern University encourages girls to consider engineering in their education and career choi
A new book highlights five controversial "Crimes of the Century," exposing much more than the underlying tensions of our criminal justice system. The cases -- including Leopold and Loeb (1924), Scottsboro (from 1931), Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1932), Alger Hiss (1949) and O.J. Simpson (1994) -- also offer provocative insights into the nation's passions, politics and prejudices.
A team of four engineering freshmen at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science designed a prosthetic appliance that is allowing a 57-year-old burn victim to play tennis again.
Northwestern University has received U.S. and international patents for the world's smallest laser -- a Microcavity Semiconductor Laser -- and the laser's Photonic-Well Microcavity Light Emitting Device.
In a finding that is expected to lead to the development of a new class of drugs for allergy and asthma sufferers, researchers at Northwestern University and Harvard Medical School have determined the precise shape of the receptor molecule that triggers the allergic response in the immune system.
Scientists at Northwestern University have demonstrated lasing in a simple powdered material, suggesting that semiconductor lasers -- which are brighter and more efficient than light emitting diodes -- could be made cheaply enough to replace some of the 30 billion LEDs made each year for use in luminescent displays.
The McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University doubled the number of Hispanic students in its freshman class this year, highlighting a nationwide trend of greater numbers of Hispanic students pursuing engineering degrees.
In a surprising finding that underscores the difficulty in understanding how genes guide the developing mammalian embryo, researchers have found that the same master gene that controls development of all of the body's blood cells is later activated in other cells of the embryo to form the genitourinary tract.
As Minnesota prepares for a pro wrestler governor, a Northwestern University mathematician says voting system is un-democratic in a three-way race.
In 1994, after reading an article in a Karachi, Pakistan, newspaper describing a cluster of dwarfs living in remote area of Sindh, Pakistan, two Northwestern University Medical School researchers traveled there to investigate the disorder. That scientific journey led to the identification of a new, genetically inherited form of dwarfism.
First-trimester tests for two proteins in the blood of pregnant women, combined with ultrasonography measurements of fetal neck skin, may provide the earliest diagnosis yet of fetal birth defects in at-risk women. The combined-risk assessment method has an estimated detection rate of Down syndrome of about 90 percent and is completely non-invasive.
Conference at Northwestern University School of Law Nov. 13-15 will feature many of the 74 people freed from death row since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, as well as who's who of experts, celebrities.
A new breast cancer imaging technology that uses microwaves instead of X-rays to detect breast tumors is being developed by researchers at Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Interstitial, Inc., a startup company. The technique works like a cancer radar, bouncing very low energy microwave pulses off potential tumors.
Northwestern University researchers find that women are at a distinct disadvantage in the mating game, they published in the October issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
A study by Northwestern University researchers found significantly lower Medicare health costs in older people who had no heart disease risk factors, such as high cholestrol and blood pressure levels and cigarette smoking, during young adulthood and middle age.
Forget "Melrose Place," "Dawson's Creek" and "Beverly Hills, 90210." The buzz at Northwestern these days is about "University Place," a soap opera about college life created by Northwestern University undergraduates. The show premieres Oct. 23 at the Ryan Auditorium of the Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road, on the Evanston campus.
Researchers at Northwestern University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will partner with scientists and engineers at five major chemical companies in a unique Internet-facilitated collaboration to study the essential chemical process by which pollutants can be neutralized at their source or in the environment.
Low literacy may be a significant obstacle in diagnosing curable prostate cancer among both low-income white and black men, a Northwestern University Medical School has found.
In the cover article of the July 31 issue of the journal Science, Northwestern researchers have provided the first visualization of 3-D chaotic flow, showing all the intricacies of the regular features and the chaotic regions in the flow.
Thirty-four academically elite minority students are taking part in an intense summer challenge program to begin their engineering studies at Northwestern University. The program is called EXCEL because it is designed to challenge minority students to perform at the top of their class from the time they begin their engineering education.
Most Northwestern University engineering graduates pursue further study and many will go on to other careers within a few years of earning their degrees, according to a survey of recent graduates.
An unusual anti-violence initiative at a suburban Chicago high school aims to decrease violence not only at the high school but in the communities in which the students reside as well. By introducing conflict resolution to the parents of students in addition to students, teachers and school staff, the Peaceable Schools Initiative goes beyond typical school anti-violence efforts such as peer mediation or the formation of student/faculty conflict resolution teams.
Deep poverty in early childhood profoundly affects achievement in later years, according to a new study that examines schooling outcomes in relation to family incomes.
"Arthritis of the Hip & Knee: the Active Person's Guide to Taking Charge" raises expectations for those suffering from hip or knee arthritis, and Ronald Allen, one of the nation's leading criminal law scholars, shows how.
Northwestern engineering freshmen launch their own company -- and a club for other students who want to do the same.
Happy to have water in her basement, a Northwestern University environmental engineer has constructed an artificial stream to study how toxic pollutants like PCBs enter the food web from riverbeds.
Ticlopidine, a drug that acts like aspirin and is widely used to prevent stroke as well as blood clot formation following placement of cardiac stents, can cause thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare but potentially deadly circulatory disease.
A study from Northwestern University Medical School and the HIV Outpatient Study shows that aggressive combination antiretroviral therapy--specifically including protease inhibitors--dramatically reduces death rates and opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients.
A new honors program in engineering and law, the only such program in the U.S., is being launched at Northwestern University. The program offers high school seniors conditional acceptance into law school and completion of their undergraduate studies a year early.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is allowing geologists to measure the positions of markers thousands of miles apart to a precision of less than an inch and has suddenly become a powerful tool for earthquake studies around the world.
Northwestern University students have helped design a handy device to help surgeons keep their surgical sites neat and tidy -- a cordless medical vacuum that runs on batteries and can hold a pint of fluid.
Today's teen-agers may be designing the next generation of fishing poles. Or waterproof baseballs.
One of every 12 school-age children has a hearing problem because of an inability to distinguish individual sounds of normal speech. Children with this condition, called specific language impairment (SLI), have difficulty understanding and expressing spoken language.
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