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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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Dan Persa still wants to stay connected to football
Dan Persa was back on a football field in Bethlehem on Saturday afternoon and looked right at home. Persa, the former Liberty High and Northwestern University quarterback, is likely done as a player, but that doesn't mean he doesn't still love the game...Tags: Wrestling, Values, Sports, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, College Basketball
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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: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Human Rights, Nazareth
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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: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Bellaire, U.S. Senate, Immigration
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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, College Baseball, Baseball, Sports, Research
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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: Autism, Sports, Entertainment, Teachers, Financial Aid
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Dodger Stadium, Graduation
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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: Gator Bowl, College Football, Science and Technology, Sports, Illinois State University
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Fast start at aquatics center
The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonMATT GREVERS AND ANNIE CHANDLER -- the newlywed "it" couple of Tucson swimming, if not the entire nation -- are headlining a clinic at the new Oro Valley Aquatic Center. Between them, the duo have four gold medals and a college national championship. In...Tags: The Ohio State University, Hospitals and Clinics, Matt Grevers, University of Arizona, Sports
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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 --...
Tags: Sophie Kerr Prize, College Baseball, Colleges and Universities, Washington College (Maryland), Chestertown
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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...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Colleges and Universities, Journalism, Washington College (Maryland), Awards and Prizes
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