A Northwestern University professor who was reported missing after leaving home to go on a walk was found and transported to a local hospital on Tuesday, according to the Evanston Police Department. Before she was found, Nina Kraus, a 72-year-old professor at the university's school of communication, was last seen on Monday after she left her Evanston home to go on a walk at approximately 9 a.m. local time, officials said. Her family reported her missing the same day, officials said. The details of her condition were not immediately released. "The University is hopeful that with the community's help, we can find Professor Kraus and assure her safety," Northwestern previously said in apress releaseon Monday. She was last seen wearing long pants and a windbreaker, and was believed to be carrying a dark backpack, officials said at the time. Kraus is 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs approximately 140 pounds and has long silver hair, police said. MORE: Minnesota man missing after leaving for 3-day hike in Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming: Sheriff On Tuesday, police said they would be flying drones along the waterfront of Lake Michigan as part of the investigation. According to herfaculty bio, Kraus' is a "scientist, inventor and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning." MORE: Body of missing pregnant 18-year-old found, ex-boyfriend confessed to murder: Officials "My research on sound and the brain aims to understand how our life in sound, for better or worse, alters the processing of sound in the brain, makes us us, and affects the world we live in," Kraus wrote in her bio.