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Kellogg stays on top
The Kellogg School of Management has been ranked the No.1 graduate school of business in the United States again by BusinessWeek magazine. NSF grant funds nano learning centerThe National Science Foundation has awarded Northwestern a five-year, $15 million grant to create the nation’s first Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT). Feinberg scholar Stamler will be honoredJeremiah Stamler — the foremost authority on the role of salt and fatty foods in hypertension and cardiovascular disease and professor emeritus at the Feinberg School of Medicine — will be honored by Northwestern for his 55 years of contributions to the field of preventive medicine.
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Supplier Diversity Conference; Buyers, business owners meet here Nov. 12Buyers from Northwestern and other local institutions will be available to meet with business owners representing minority-owned, woman-owned, disadvantaged, and local Evanston businesses (M/W/D/LBEs) Nov. 12 at the University’s ninth annual Supplier Diversity Conference. The conference will be held at the Norris University Center on the Evanston campus from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Chicago Humanities Festival; Northwestern talent on displayNorthwestern faculty members and alumni will take part in the 2004 Chicago Humanities Festival Oct. 30 through Nov. 14. Richard W. Leopold Lecture; Commentator Zakaria looks to next security crisisABC political commentator and Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria will speak on “The Next Security Crisis: Global Threats and U.S. Policy” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, when he delivers the 15th annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture. Homecoming kicks off Oct. 29Northwestern Homecoming festivities the weekend of Oct. 29 to 31 include a concert, parade and football game against Purdue. Biotechnology conference Oct. 22-23; Stem cells are the topic of discussionA conference on biotechnology and its implications for health care, titled “Playing God or Playing Politics? How Stem Cells Came to the Convention Floor,” will be held from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Friday (Oct. 22) at the Daniel Hale Williams Auditorium on the Chicago campus. Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium; Folkman, angiogenesis pioneer, to give lectureNoted cancer surgeon and researcher Judah Folkman, M.D., will be the Distinguished Lecturer at the Sixth Annual Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium at 10:45 a.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers. Obituary: Thomas WillisThomas Willis, 76, former School of Music faculty member, died Sept. 23 at Manorcare nursing home in Wilmette. Theatre symposium; Shakespeare in AmericaThe department of theatre will bring together some of the most influential names in American theatre to discuss their experiences producing, directing and performing the works of William Shakespeare before contemporary audiences. Open Enrollment begins Oct. 25Open Enrollment for the 2005 benefit programs begins Monday (Oct. 25) and continues through Nov. 19. Northwestern people, events and things; The digest
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Mars on the big screen
The Visualization Lab at Northwestern offers faculty and students a rare
chance Music and the Mind: Turning the Cognition KeyNorthwestern stands at the fore of a developing discipline — music cognition — that addresses such questions as ‘How does music change the brain?’
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Commentary: Peace of mind’s priceDoug Cassell, director of the Center for International Human Rights, says government thinks we have nothing to fear...but ideas Researchers look at
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Pop quiz: Tiffany GrobelskiCo-chairs campus environmental group. Calls herself a chemistry nerd. Favorite class is ecotoxicology. Student inventors winStudent community service; Students draw children to Halloween party
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