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Huron Consulting ready for boost in health

20 Jun 2009 21:31:00 PDT

SPOTLIGHT: DAVID M. SHADE Job: President and chief operating officer, Huron Consulting Group Inc., a Chicago-based consultancy, since May 21. Vitals: 65 years old; bachelor's degree in accounting, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1966; MBA, Northwestern University, 1967; U.S. Army, in...

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Judy's top five: Girl Scout tips and other advice

28 May 2009 14:00:19 PDT

IL at 4 pm June 4 at the McCormick Tribune Center, 1870 Campus Drive on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The lecture is free and open to the public. Well, since they are eight hours ahead of us, right now it would be 4 am over there. ...

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lawkos: Diversity of Legal Education and the Supreme Court

28 May 2009 07:01:22 PDT

CA Law School: Northwestern University Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1947; Co-editor Illinois Law Review; Order of the Coif; Phi Delta Phi. Conception Seminary, 1967-1968: Holy Cross College, AB cum laude. Alpha Sigma Nu, Purple Key. Yale Law School, JD, ...

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Chicagoan Headed for Obama's High Court?

02 May 2009 13:15:00 PDT

Written by Kalyn Belsha
Commentators say appellate court judge and law professor at the University of Chicago Diane Wood and U.S. Court district judge and professor at Northwestern University Ruben Castillo have the best odds of the Chicagoans in the running.

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Evanston seeks home for new salt dome

28 Apr 2009 17:24:47 PDT

IL Alderman Delores Holmes, 5th, asked staff what steps they had taken to discuss with Northwestern University officials the possibility of expanding the city facility, which abuts property owned by the university. A modified site would require a use ...

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CITY DEVELOPMENT: Evanston OKs tax package to spur project

28 Apr 2009 13:20:55 PDT

IL Carroll Properties is proposing to demolish an office building on the property that was built in 1989 as part of the Northwestern University-Evanston Research Park and has been vacant for more than two years.

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Northwestern University news and blogs - July 04, 2009

04 Jul 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Northwestern University news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• OSA Trailer -- from Google Video - -site:youtube.com "Northwestern University" Evanston OR "Feinberg School of Medicine" OR Vukusic OR NUIT OR Triquarterly OR NU OR "Evanston College for Ladies" OR Ghiglione OR novellas OR parainfluenza OR Carmody OR purple OR "Northwest Territory" OR "Technological Institute" OR "Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art" OR Novella OR "NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship" OR "online directory entry northwestern university information" OR Medill OR Chicago OR Boll OR pp OR "eleven schools and colleges" OR "School of Continuing Studies" OR "Pace Suburban Bus Service" OR "Kellogg School of Management" OR "Evanston Central Street" OR "Evanston Davis Street" OR "Governor of Illinois" OR "Notes and references" OR "Chicago Transit Authority" OR "Gospel of John"
• Salt in chain restaurant meals increases risk of heart attacks ... -- from Seattle Post Intelligencer
• John von Rhein's concert picks -- from Chicago Tribune
• Set an example — and forget kids' menus -- from San Antonio Express
• HSIEC Announces Business Plan Competition - PR-USA.net -- from press release
• Brain infections linked to lymphoma drug highlight need for ... -- from Globe and Mail
• Few pharmacies can translate prescription labels into Spanish - EurekAlert -- from press release
• Nab-Paclitaxel Boosts Progression-Free Survival in Metastatic ... -- from DG News
• Nigeria: Ekpo Appointed Waifem DG -- from AllAfrica.com
• Consultants: Visitors like downtown, hate parking -- from Evanston Review

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26 Hours of Music, 1 Good Cause

28 Apr 2009 12:20:00 PDT

Written by Alexander Hough
5 will get you into the opening block starting at 8:00 p.m., which features performances by the Gentlemen of NUCO, a string and percussion group that plays Radiohead songs; the talented and adventurous new music group dal niente; and the Northwestern Saxophone Choir.$5 will also get you in...

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Opinion: Judy's Top Five

01 Apr 2009 17:44:16 PDT

IL Northwestern University presents flutist Eugenia Zuckerman and piano, organ and fortepiano performer Anthony Newman in "Pieces for a Musical Clock" at 7:30 pm April 3 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 60 Arts circle Drive on the Evanston campus of the ...

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Opinion: Evanston 56, New Trier 55

04 Mar 2009 20:44:32 PST

IL It marked Evanston's third win in four meetings this year with New Trier. The two rivals have played their regular season home-and-home series at Northwestern University for the past seven years. Evanston (15-12) advanced to Friday night's championship ...

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Opinion: Updated 1/8: Judy'S Evanston Top Five

08 Jan 2009 10:15:58 PST

IL - Jan 8, 2009 Johannes Brahms and others at 7:30 pm Friday at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive, on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. ...

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Opinion: Charges filed in fatal drinking game

25 Dec 2008 02:39:48 PST

IL - A joint investigation led by Evanston police, in conjunction with Northwestern University police and the Cook County State Attorney's Office determined that ...

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Headed to Alburque, New Mexico for the American Studies Conference

13 Nov 2008 11:59:43 PST

Written by Frank Le�n(noreply@blogger.com)
I’ll be presenting a paper in a panel moderated by Northwestern University’s E. Patrick Johnson. I’ll be joined by three fantastic colleagues: Marlon M. Bailey of Indiana University-Bloomington (a graduate of UC Berkeley’s African Diaspora Studies Program), Jeffrey Q. McCune of the Uni...

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Opinion: Colleges and universities graded on fire safety

06 Nov 2008 12:53:00 PST

Written by info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports)
The Princeton Review's ratings of colleges and universities on fire prevention and preparedness gives new meaning to the term "safe" school. The rating measures how well prepared a school is to prevent or respond to campus fires, specifically in residence halls, according to the Prin...

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Argonne and Three Area Universities Form Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology

31 Oct 2008 03:00:00 PDT

Written by Mike Millikin
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has teamed with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Northwestern University to form the Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology (ICAT), which will dev...

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Midday open thread

13 Oct 2008 13:53:56 PDT

Written by kos
Among the other board members who served with Obama were: Stanley Ikenberry, former president of the University of Illinois; Arnold Weber, former president of Northwestern University and assistant secretary of labor in the Nixon administration; Scott Smith, then publisher of the C...

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4D-ELF...Coming To A Colonoscope Near You

01 Oct 2008 10:27:07 PDT

Written by Stephen
A fiber optic probe used during colonoscopy maps the microvascular circulation of the mucosal lining by detecting oxygenated (Ohb) and deoxygenated (Dhb) hemoglobin(Hb) via 4D-ELF, which stands for Four Dimensional Elastic Light Scattering Fingerprinting (but you probably gues...

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New Light Sensor Mimicks Eye for Superior Camera Performance

06 Aug 2008 01:39:39 PDT

One of the disadvantages of modern photo cameras is the flat image sensor that converts light into electric signals. Because of its shape, optics must make up for various aberrations that come to light (excuse the pun). Now scientists at Northwestern University and University of Illinoi...

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Opinion: Updated 7/15: Evanston Trader Joe's talks under way

15 Jul 2008 09:40:53 PDT

IL - not far from where a Dominick's operated until the early 1980s, when it was closed to make room for the Northwestern University Evanston Research Park. ...

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Opinion: 'Elijah' in Evanston Saturday

05 Jun 2008 02:05:28 PDT

IL - The baritone teaches in the opera program at Northwestern University, where he earned his doctor's degree in music, and this spring he directed a student ...

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Opinion: Northwestern Journo Dean’s Use of ‘Unnamed Sources’ Questioned - Blogger News Network

27 Feb 2008 17:31:43 PST

- The dean of journalism at Northwestern University seems to have gotten himself in a bit of a sticky wicket, as it were. Apparently, John Lavine, the dean of ... Quote controversy at Northwestern: Further review places greater ... Change of Subject - Chicago Tribune Blog

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How To: Libraries, News: The Next Generation of OVID

22 Jan 2008 11:57:31 PST

Written by creaky15
Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University - OVID SP Quick Tip Sheet. From the librarians at Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, an excellent online tutorial for using OVID SP. ...

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Podcast: New Exhibit Features the "Admirable Nucleus" at the Heart of Today's NU Library

01 May 2007 08:16:14 PDT

Garrett is co-curator, with McCormick Library of Special Collections curator Russell Maylone, of a new University Library exhibit called “An Admirable Nucleus: The Prussian Purchase at the Heart of Today’s Northwestern University Library.” Free and open to the public during regula...

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Library Now Offers Web Access to Rare African Map Collection

08 Jan 2007 08:54:52 PST

Since its inception in 1954, the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University—the largest separate collection of Africana in existence—has been building its collection of antique African maps dating back as far as 1530. Now the Northwestern Universit...

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Northwestern will be playing for 'Walk' this season

30 Aug 2006 23:59:55 PDT

EVANSTON, Ill. - In his seven years as head football coach at Northwestern University, Randy Walker repeatedly preached one of his favorite mantras: Respond.Respond to adversity, respond to pressure. Two months and two days after their coach's death from a heart attack, the Wildcats Thu...

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A coach's widow embraces life, love for the game

30 Aug 2006 23:59:22 PDT

Tammy Walker was at home in Wilmette, Ill., just four blocks from the Northwestern University football stadium, when her son Jamie came in the back door one evening last week. Jamie, who works for the Wildcat football team, had called three times that day to make sure his mother was going to b...

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