October 9, 2003

Rosenzweig receives MacArthur Fellowship

Amy Rosenzweig

Northwestern biochemist Amy C. Rosenzweig has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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Drucker Family gift establishes virology labs

The Drucker Family Foundation has made a $5 million gift to Northwestern through the Midwest AIDS Foundation/Engle Fund to create the Fred and Norman A. Drucker Virology Research Laboratories at the Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Programs added in landscape design and management

tree to be planted
The new program features certificates in residential landscape, green industry business and horticulture management.

A series of new Landscape Design and Management certificate programs jointly offered by The Morton Arboretum and Northwestern will help landscape professionals reap profits from the gardens they sow. The classes are taught at both Northwestern’s Evanston campus and the Arboretum in Lisle.

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Eggers, Crain, Weiss lectures are scheduled

Dave Eggers, the writer who burst onto the literary landscape with the publication of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” will speak about Mark Twain and Twain’s work at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13.

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Pianist O’Riley, Nickel Creek will perform at Pick-Staiger

Music with a stylistic twist will be performed this fall when classical pianist Christopher O’Riley presents a concert of Radiohead music (Oct. 11) and the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass trio Nickel Creek perform a fusion of alternative rock, pop and folk works (Nov. 5).

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