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Police Chief Chafin announces retirementUniversity Chief of Police Saul Chafin has announced that he will retire in June. Packard awards fellowship to KalogeraVassiliki Kalogera, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is the recipient of two awards: a 2002 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering and the 2002 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy from the American Association of University Women and the American Astronomical Society. United Way giving sets new recordThe 2002 United Way campaign received contributions and pledges totaling $251,899. The figure exceeds the University’s goal of $250,000 and sets a new Northwestern campaign record. Lindsay named Student LaureateJoshua Lindsay, a senior majoring in communication studies, has received the Student Laureate Award for 2002 from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Nominate employees through FridayHuman Resources has an-nounced that nominations are still being accepted for Employ-ee of the Year 2003.
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Faculty honorsRichard B. Silverman, Frederick D. Lewis and Kenneth R. Shull. NewsfeedWilliam Leonard, professor of anthropology, discusses dieting. Understanding neurodegenerative diseasesNorthwestern scientists have made a key molecular discovery that has implications for a wide range of diseases characterized by the loss of nerve function, including Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s diseases, cystic fibrosis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad cow disease.
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Board approves tenure, tenure-track faculty membersNew tenured and tenure-track faculty members have joined Northwestern University in the 2002-03 academic year. |
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| On The Job |
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Art Monge
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“Sometimes you have class actions of hundreds of thousands of dollars for each claimant. But when you start getting under a few hundred dollars, people feel there’s no money in it. If it’s less than $10, it's not worth the effort.”— Martin Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, discussing the lack of participation in the class action suit against the music industry regarding CDs, in the Chicago Tribune, Jan. 26. |
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