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| April 29, 2004 |
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Researchers continue to attract competitive awardsSponsored research grants totaled $328.1 million in the 2003 fiscal year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous year. |
Davis elected to National Academy of SciencesStephen H. Davis, a leading expert in fluid dynamics and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. State of the University address is May 4President Henry S. Bienen will deliver the State of the University address at 9:30 a.m. May 4 in Thorne Auditorium in the Law School’s Arthur Rubloff Building. Upcoming conferences‘Media Coverage of Africa: The Question of Islam;’ ‘Jerusalem, City of Three Faiths: Histories of the Past, Present and Future;’ and ‘Second Chances in Life: Transformative Stories of Self and Society.’ Waa-Mu celebrates ‘pop-rock’Northwestern’s 2004 Waa-Mu Show, “Pomp and Circumstance,” will explore college life from various points of view with a new student-written score, an elevated band that will provide “pop-rock” music, singing, piano playing narrators and a number of singing and dancing puppets. Sibs-N-Kids events start April 30Younger siblings of Northwestern students, as well as children of faculty and staff members and graduate students, are invited to spend a weekend on campus as part of the annual Sibs-N-Kids event run by the Center for Student Involvement. Sotheby’s lends hand to benefit Block MuseumSotheby’s, the internationally known auction house, will lend a hand at a benefit buffet supper and auction at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. Sissors memorial is May 5A memorial service for Jack Z. Sissors, professor emeritus of journalism, will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 5 in Alice Millar Chapel. A reception will follow in Parkes Hall 122. |
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Faculty honorsRoman Bezrukavnikov, Carole LaBonne, Ed Paschke. Discovery sheds light on neutron starsA recent discovery of a double neutron-star system has helped to increase astronomers’ chances at collecting the information they need to better understand the black holes and neutron stars in our Galaxy. Newsfeed: Marc Jung-BeemanMarc Jung-Beeman explains the ‘Eureka!’ moment. Obituary: Leften Stavros StavrianosLeften Stavros Stavrianos, 91, a distinguished world historian who was a professor of history at Northwestern from 1946 to 1973, died March 23 in La Jolla, Calif.
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McGaw Pavilion renovation adds to medical education facilitiesThe Feinberg School of Medicine now occupies the renovated McGaw Pavilion of the Health Sciences Building, which formerly housed the Dental School. |
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