March 3, 2005

Costs increase 5 percent

Total undergraduate costs at Northwestern, including tuition, fees, room and board, will increase 5.3 percent to $41,663 in 2005-2006 from the current year’s $39,582, University officials announced today. The University’s Board of Trustees approved the costs for next year at its Feb. 26 meeting.

Achenbach receives highest technology honor

Jan D. Achenbach, Walter P. Murphy Professor and Distinguished McCormick School Professor of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded the 2003 National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor awarded by the president for technological innovation.

Composer at work

John Adams

Stephen Anzaldi

John Adams, winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, recently completed his first of four residencies at Northwestern. He closed the visit with a Feb. 25 concert at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. He also made classroom visits and consulted on a rehearsal by the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by Mallory Thompson and featuring pianists Ursula Oppens and Sylvia Wang.

News

Center on Wrongful Convictions; Drizin named legal director of center

Steven Drizin, a leading authority on police interrogations, coerced confessions and the juvenile death penalty, has been named legal director of the Center on Wrongful Convic-tions, part of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at the School of Law.

Report on women in academia available online

Civility policy available online

The University’s Civility, Mutual Respect and Unacceptability of Violence on Campus Policy is now available online in the Staff Handbook.

Lies, consequences

During a recent Crain Lecture, author Eric Alterman discussed the media's inability to accurately report foreign policy and balance legitimate news coverage with more sensational, less substantial stories.

Dance Marathon; Dancers support juvenile diabetes

Children, teenagers and young adults diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and the Evanston community will benefit from the proceeds raised by the 500 dancers who will cram the floor during the 31st annual Dance Marathon March 4 to 6.

Briefs

New look at art history

An online repository of images called ARTstor modernizes the way instructors teach, students learn about art.

Feature

A New York City diary: Leigh Bienen's view of 'The Gates'

Leigh Bienen, senior lecturer at the School of Law, was in New York City last month to be a monitor for the installation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates.”

Faculty News

Effective cancer treatments follow the internal clock

Honors

Obituary: Benjamin Baldwin

Other News

Observer Q & A: Celeste Watkins

Assistant professor of sociology and African American studies talks about the welfare office’s move from claims-processing bureau to social support agency

Rite of Strings

The School of Music’s 2005 12-day festival “Rite of Strings: From Bach to Django” (March 29 to April 9) will feature such renowned international guest artists as violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, cellist Carter Brey, bassist Edgar Meyer and Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing Trio, as well as master classes and an 11-hour film festival.