Northwestern University professor Nina Kraus was found safe one day after she was reported missing.
The 72-year-old was last seen Monday, Sept. 1, around 9 a.m. walking near the 1500 block of Ashland Avenue in Evanston. On Tuesday, Sept. 2, the Evanston Police Department announced in a social media post that Kraus had been located.
“Professor Nina Kraus has been located in Evanston. She has been transported to a local hospital for treatment,” the statement read.
Her son, Mikey Perkins, told the Evanston RoundTable that she was found near her home and taken to the hospital.
Before she went missing, Kraus had been wearing long pants and a windbreaker, according to police. Northwestern University also noted she had a dark backpack with her, while the Evanston RoundTable reported that she left her cellphone behind.
Commander Ryan Glew of the Evanston Police Department told PEOPLE Tuesday night that there were no further updates at this time. Earlier in the day, he said no foul play was suspected, and officers were searching the nearby lakefront with drones after receiving community tips.
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(546x0:548x2)/Nina-Kraus-090225-61b03fb825164ca08f2566ddd11c666a.jpg)
On Tuesday afternoon, the Evanston Police Department posted on Facebook that “the drone deployment continues as the search continues south of Church St. boat ramp.”
Kraus is a professor in Northwestern University’s School of Communication, where she teaches neurobiology and otolaryngology. She also directs Northwestern’s Hugh Knowles Center.
She describes herself as “a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning.”
“My research on sound and the brain aims to understand how our life in sound, for better and worse, alters the processing of sound in the brain, makes us who we are, and affects the world we live in,” Kraus explains in her faculty profile.
