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"Phenomenal" Growth Highlighted at State of the School Address
The Feinberg School has seen impressive growth in the last five years and with its affiliated hospitals is among the best positioned academic medical centers in the nation, reported Dean Lewis Landsberg, MD, and Jeffrey Miller, senior executive associate dean and chief operating officer, at the annual State of the School address November 15. Held in the gleaming new Hughes Auditorium of the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center of Northwestern University, the address drew approximately 200 staff and faculty members, students, and other members of the medical school community. The event was sponsored by the school's Staff Relations Committee. Since 2000 research space at the Feinberg School has grown 88 percent and education space 67 percent. "These numbers are phenomenal," said Miller. "No medical school in the country that we're aware of has grown its research and education space, proportionately, as much as we have." In April 2005 the opening of the Lurie Medical Research Center added more than 200,000 net square feet of research space, which was preceded by the addition of research space in the McGaw Pavilion of the Health Sciences Building and in the Ward-Morton-Searle-Tarry complex. view full story> Artists among the Feinberg School community came together October 18–20 to display their works in the annual Art in the Atrium exhibit. Thirty artists, including 17 staff members and research associates, 5 medical students, 1 resident, and 7 faculty members, displayed works in media ranging from sculpture, photography, and drawings to watercolor, oil, and acrylic paintings. Sponsored by the Feinberg School's Staff Relations Committee, the show was presented in the airy beauty of the Method Atrium and drew substantial crowds.
Feng Chen, MD, research associate in the endocrinology division, used a technique that mixed oil paint with laquer to create The Decorative Dragon. A native of China who has been in the United States for 10 years and at the medical school since 1999, Dr. Chen says, "I learned the process from my father. It starts with a good piece of wood that must be very smooth. After drawing the picture, I mix the laquer with oil paint and apply it in four layers." Each layer requires a full day to dry before the next one can be applied. After the background color was completed, he added words in Chinese characters. To achieve the golden dragon's bright, raised texture, he combined glitter with the lacquer. "Again, I applied layers to build it up," says Dr. Chen. "Dragons are the wisest and most auspicious of creatures according to ancient Chinese tradition. The painting depicts vividly the dragon full of vigor." view full story> | Calendar February 6–8 February 14 February 23 March 8 March 16 April 27
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