April 1, 2004
Andrew Wachtel

Wachtel named Graduate School dean

Andrew Wachtel has been appointed dean of The Graduate School, effective Sept. 1, it was announced last week by Provost Lawrence B. Dumas.

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Northwestern, city getting connected

photo by Mary Hanlon

Work began in March on the installation of fiber optic cables that will connect Evanston municipal buildings and allow the city to transfer data up to 10 gigabits per second, 500 times faster than the city’s existing network. Contractors and machinery will be at intersections and parkways to bore small directional tunnels laterally underneath the ground. Cable will be fed through the tunnels that will encase the fiber to form the new communications network. The estimated $1.6 million project is funded by Northwestern through an easement agreement with the City. Buildings that will be connected include: Civic Center; Fleet Service Center; Water Department; Chandler Newberger Center; Noyes Cultural Arts Center; all five fire stations; Fleetwood Jourdain Community Center; Police Department; Main Library; Robert Crown Center; and the Levy Senior Center. Work is scheduled to conclude in July.


News

Symposium participants will focus on Rwandan genocide 10 years later

In the wake of two major genocides during the 1990s — in Bosnia and Rwanda — an all-day symposium at Northwestern will focus on the International Criminal Trial for Rwanda (ICTR) by taking a hard look at the responsibilities of the media and others for such extraordinary brutality as well as the role of justice in reweaving the fabric of civil society.

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HR news

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Guinier highlights spring lectures

Kenya James, who started a popular magazine for African American girls while she was barely in her teens, will kick off the spring season of the Gertrude and G. D. Crain Jr. Lecture Series Monday, (April 5).

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Summer Session registration for School of Continuing Studies opens April 12

The School of Continuing Studies opens Summer Session registration April 12. Classes begin June 21.

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Obituary: John A. Pople

A memorial service was held Monday at the First United Methodist Church in Evanston for Nobel Laureate John A. Pople, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry. Mr. Pople died March 15 at his daughter’s home in Chicago.

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Memorial: Robert P. Neuschel

A memorial service for the late Robert P. Neuschel will be held at 5 p.m. next Thursday (April 8) in the Alice Millar Chapel.

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