October 23, 2003

Open Enrollment period begins Oct. 27

Open Enrollment for the 2004 benefit programs begins Monday (Oct. 27) and continues through Nov. 21.

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News

Kellogg tops ranking of MBA programs

The Kellogg School of Management provides the world’s best MBA, according to a ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit of the 100 best full-time MBA programs.

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DRAWING TO A CLOSE
Enjoying one of the few remaining warm days of this year, a beginning drawing student takes in the view from the sculpture garden.

photo by Mary Hanlon

Faculty News

Weertman to receive von Hippel Award

Julia R. Weertman, Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering, will receive the 2003 von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society during its annual fall meeting Dec. 3.

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Faculty honors

Linda A. Hicke, Marian S. Macsai, M.D. and David Schoenbrun

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Newsfeed: William Gradishar

William Gradishar, associate professor of medicine and co-director of the Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Program, discusses breast cancer awareness

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Feature

It’s Homecoming... remember, reunite, reconnect

Homecoming festivities this weekend (Oct. 24-26) include a concert, parade, and football game against the Wisconsin Badgers.

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On Campus

Staff profile: Michelle Bledsoe

Program assistant for the Walter P. Murphy Cooperative Education Program in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Conference celebrates Du Bois

Scholars from across the country will gather at Northwestern Oct. 24 and 25 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of one of the most influential and widely read books in African American and American letters, W.E. B. Du Bois’ “The Souls of Black Folks.”

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Complexity conference is Oct. 24-25

Prominent experts from many spheres will converge at the Conference on Complex Systems, an interdisciplinary, intra-university event to be held Friday and Saturday (Oct. 24-25) in the Tribune Auditorium at the James. L. Allen Center.

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Food drive is Oct. 25

As part of this week’s Campus Kitchen Week celebration (through Oct. 27) the project, an innovative program devoted to fighting hunger through community service, will sponsor a food drive.

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