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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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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: College Baseball, Chestertown, Colleges and Universities, Entertainment Events, Washington College (Maryland)
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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: The Washington Post, Journalism, Perry Hall, Awards and Prizes, Graduation
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Commencement speakers strive to inspire, entertain
Expectations are high for this year's commencement speakers at Maryland universities — an august crew that includes the Obamas and their team of writers as well as funnyman Bill Cosby and Hollywood director Jason Winer. But to stand out — or...
Tags: Morgan State University, Barack Obama, Stanley A. McChrystal, Teaching and Learning, Martin O'Malley
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An hundredweight of huzzahs
The Baltimore SunIn addition to the huzzahs for Jonathon Owen on the completion of his master's degree in linguistics, please lift your hats high for Professor Stacy Spaulding, who has just been granted tenure and promotion at Towson University. Professor Spaulding...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Colleges and Universities, Towson University
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Part three: Culture shock
Tribune Tower was in crisis, and the illustrations of penguins installed in the building's ornate lobby were meant as a constant reminder. With Tribune Co. revenues sliding and managers struggling to adjust to an Internet revolution, executives in early...
Tags: Television Industry, Financially Distressed Companies, Radio Industry, Jimmy Lee, Teaching and Learning
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City's lucrative speed camera program dogged by problems
The Baltimore SunThe tractor-trailer hit 70 mph as it passed the Poly-Western high school campus on Cold Spring Lane, barreling down a turn lane at twice the legal speed limit. Or so the $40 citation claimed. Just before Falls Road, a pole-mounted speed camera clocked the...Tags: Photography Supplies and Services, Science, Howard County, Manufacturing and Engineering, Cherry Hill (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Maryland's application for Big Ten admission approved
The Baltimore SunSetting aside almost 60 years of athletic tradition in a quest for greater financial stability, the University of Maryland will join the Big Ten Conference, school and league officials announced Monday after a weekend of whirlwind negotiations. In...Tags: Duke Blue Devils, University of Iowa, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, University of Virginia, Teaching and Learning
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Catonsville High School student's talent with trombone has taken him to New England and New York City
Seven years ago, Michael Shayte tested various brass and string instruments along with the rest of his fifth-grade class.
But only the trombone called to him.
"It just felt right when I started playing," he said, recalling that moment back in middle...Tags: New York City, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, High Schools, Schools, Teaching and Learning
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County native will command Westminster police barrack
WESTMINSTER — A lifelong resident of Carroll County has been named as the new commander of the Westminster Barrack for the Maryland State Police. Lt. Jim DeWees, 40, was transferred to the new position, effective this past week, by State Police...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Maryland, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), College Baseball, Laws
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Educating the family
Poverty, undereducation and disconnectedness to society beget exactly those same things — a problem that has stymied policymakers since the advent of public education, which was supposed to be the solution. Four centuries of publicly funded...Tags: Hispanic and Latino Americans, Mount Vernon, Minority Groups, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden explains the biology of pleasure
Not all addictions live up to their advance press.
In the past decade, it's become common to casually and humorously describe a favorite activity in the parlance of chemical dependency. People speak of being "addicted" to chocolate or high-fat foods,...Tags: Heroin, Addiction, Cocaine, Science, Genes and Chromosomes
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Update on the vacation
Dining@LargeNorthwestern University is the swine flu capital of the universe.......
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