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Northwestern University is one of the country's leading private research and teaching universities. It has two campuses located on Lake Michigan: the 240-acre main campus in Evanston, about 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, and a 25-acre campus in Chicago. A third campus is located in Doha, Qatar. Northwestern has approximately 8,000 full-time undergraduate students, 8,000 graduate and professional program students and 2,000 part-time students. A member of the Big Ten conference, its athletic teams are called the Wildcats. Founded in 1851, Northwestern now has 12 schools and colleges: the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; the School of Communication; the School of...
Northwestern University is one of the country's leading private research and teaching universities. It has two campuses located on Lake Michigan: the 240-acre main campus in Evanston, about 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, and a 25-acre campus in Chicago. A third campus is located in Doha, Qatar. Northwestern has approximately 8,000 full-time undergraduate students, 8,000 graduate and professional program students and 2,000 part-time students. A member of the Big Ten conference, its athletic teams are called the Wildcats. Founded in 1851, Northwestern now has 12 schools and colleges: the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; the School of Communication; the School of Continuing Studies; the School of Education and Social Policy; the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; the Graduate School; the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications; the School of Law; the J. L. Kellogg School of Management; the Feinberg School of Medicine; the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music; and Northwestern University in Qatar.
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Cardinal Dolan describes the secret of Notre Dame
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND – Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he found the secret to the University of Notre Dame during a nighttime visit to the campus grotto. During the 2013 commencement speech Sunday in Notre Dame Stadium, Dolan recalled...Tags: Politics, Nazareth, Education, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Falling in love? Get it in writing
David and Kimberley Rudd got to know each other as journalism students at Northwestern University in the fall of 1984. And it was a strictly platonic relationship. "We were two of about 13 African-American freshman journalism students at...
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Five books: Local crime authors appearing at Lit Fest
In “The Devil's Dictionary,” Ambrose Bierce wrote, “There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another...Tags: Immigration, U.S. Senate, Authors, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Review: "Mickey and Willie" by Allen Barra
Baseball is a game of failure. The best hitters make outs almost seven times out of 10 at-bats, and the best pitchers don't win a third of their starts. Baseball biographies and autobiographies have a similar success rate. Too many are publicity-...
Tags: Jackie Robinson, New York Yankees, Research, Sports, Baseball
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Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team
Scott Beck By John P. Huston,Tribune reporter Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Health and Safety at School, Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vaccines
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'Test arguments,' Dodgers owner and alum tells NU law grads
Tribune reporterMark Walter said he learned to test arguments as a Northwestern University law school graduate in 1985. So in a commencement address Friday to its 2013 class, Walter told newly minted graduates how he put those skills to use when he was approached...Tags: Dodger Stadium, Graduation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Dodgers owner tells Northwestern graduates to test arguments
As a 1985 Northwestern University law school graduate, Mark Walter said he learned to test arguments. So in a convocation address Friday to its 2013 class, Walter told newly minted graduates how he put those skills to good use when he was approached...
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Jacksonville's Hance commits to Northwestern
Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Ill.Week by week the Division I college football offers poured in for Jacksonville High junior lineman/tight end Blake Hance. It looked like he'd spend the whole summer before his senior year on the road, visiting campuses, shaking hands, touring facilities...Tags: Princeton University, Northwestern Wildcats, Sports, Media Industry, Science and Technology
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Delaware student wins $61,000 writing prize
Congratulations to Tim Marcin, winner of Washington College's Sophie Kerr Prize, worth $61,192 this year. The 22-year-old from Wilmington, Del., who is headed to Northwestern University, plans to pursue a sports writing career. That's a worthy goal --...
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Winner of $61k Kerr literary prize announced
As the five young writers sat with bated breath, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda told them that a life of wordsmithing would bring them pain. One of them would soon win the nation's most lucrative literary award, the...
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Swearing off letting kids curse
Jiminy Cricket! The notion of allowing your children to use swear words — in certain controlled settings, when they are old enough — provokes heated response. I know, because I suggested that very notion in this column a few weeks ago and...
Tags: Religious Texts, Education, Entertainment Events, Dominican University, Religion and Belief
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Worker in fatal construction site accident identified
Chicago TribuneA man working at a construction site on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston who died after he was struck by a beam that fell from six stories up this morning has been identified. The beam was knocked loose by a construction crane and struck...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Labor Legislation, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Colleges and Universities, Evanston
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