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  • July 2008

    • Where to Get Your JD, ASAP

      Time  |  Jul 24, 08 8:02 PM CDT

      Where to Get Your JD, ASAP

      (Newser) - Northwestern University’s law school will offer its JD program, normally a 3-year commitment, in 2 years, a move designed to increase the school's competitive edge and respond to critics who say students with jobs lined up coast through their final year. Northwestern isn't pioneering the approach, but as the first top-tier school to offer a shortened program, other elite universities may follow, Time reports. More »

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      education  • university  • lawyer  • Northwestern University  • law school  • graduation

    • Yoga Turning B-Schoolers on Their Heads

      BusinessWeek  |  Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT

      Yoga Turning B-Schoolers on Their Heads

      (Newser) - Inner peace through capitalism? Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, and now, BusinessWeek reports, yoga clubs are cropping up in some of the country's most high-pressured institutions: top business schools. "Having a yoga practice helped sort through the white noise," one MIT student said. More »

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      business  • Harvard  • MIT  • stress  • University of Chicago  • capitalism  • Northwestern University  • business school  • yoga  • BusinessWeek

  • May 2008

    • Chicago Mayor a 'Letdown,' Grads Moan

      Chicago Tribune  |  May 29, 08 2:01 PM CDT

      Chicago Mayor a 'Letdown,' Grads Moan

      (Newser) - Some Northwestern University seniors are disappointed the “extremely well-known person” promised as graduation speaker is no one more significant than Richard Daley, Chicago’s mayor. Graduating students have called the revelation “lame” and a “letdown,” the Tribune reports; John McCain and Barack Obama were recent speakers. Speculation about this year’s grandee had run from Tony Blair to the Dalai Lama. More »

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      Northwestern University  • commencement speech  • Richard Daley

    • Dartmouth Prof to Sue 'Fascist' Students

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 6, 08 5:37 PM CDT

      Dartmouth Prof to Sue 'Fascist' Students

      (Newser) - A Dartmouth English professor enamored of trendy French literary theories recently got so incensed at students who “argue with your ideas” that she announced her intention to sue her class, charging that their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights and caused her “intellectual distress.”  The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago, a Dartmouth alum, recaps the story with some glee, right through the "snapping point" when the class applauded a student who questioned her “ecofeminist” analysis. More »

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      lawsuit  • Northwestern University  • Dartmouth College  • patriarchy

    • Church Builds Wright $1M Home in Pricey Chicago 'Burb

      New York Post  |  May 1, 08 1:11 PM CDT

      Church Builds Wright $1M Home in Pricey Chicago 'Burb

      (Newser) - Jeremiah Wright is set to retire to a $1 million mansion paid for by Trinity United Church of Christ. The 10,400-square-footer is in a tony Chicago suburb, and comes with butler’s pantry, elevator, and whirlpool, the New York Post reports. The church is listed as owner; an unexplained $10 million line of credit is attached to the property. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Jeremiah Wright  • Trinity United Church of Christ  • Northwestern University

  • April 2008

    • Law Students Object to Springer Speech

      Chicago Tribune  |  Apr 28, 08 2:15 PM CDT

      Law Students Object to Springer Speech

      (Newser) - No one’s resorted to chair throwing—yet—but Northwestern law students aren’t happy about their commencement speaker: Jerry Springer, class of '68. The committee that tapped the TV host touted his success in news and entertainment, and even politics, the Chicago Tribune reports. Never mind that he resigned from the Cincinnati city council after being caught with a prostitute. More »

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      Northwestern University  • commencement speech  • law school  • Jerry Springer

    • Quantum Internet Gets Closer

      MIT Technology Review  |  Apr 15, 08 12:40 PM CDT

      Quantum Internet Gets Closer

      (Newser) - A recent quantum computing breakthrough is a step towards creating a quantum Internet—which would be "automatically secure," a researcher told Technology Review . A Northwestern University professor has created a fundamental element of a quantum computer, a quantum logic gate, within an optical fiber, where previous gates used laser passing through air. This “could lead to distributed networks,” said one expert. More »

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      Internet  • computer  • Northwestern University  • supercomputer  • quantum computing  • computing

  • March 2008

    • New Electronics Can Stretch, Fold

      MIT Technology Review  |  Mar 28, 08 1:42 PM CDT

      New Electronics Can Stretch, Fold

      (Newser) - New research showing that it’s possible to make stretchable, bendable complex electrical circuits could open the door to wearable computers and to health-monitoring systems that can be implanted, Technology Review reports. Previous bendable circuitry was too slow for complex computing, but the new circuits, of ultra-thin silicon on plastic or rubber, perform as well as traditional rigid ones. More »

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      Northwestern University  • University of Illinois  • silicon  • wearable computers  • computing

  • February 2008

    • Sampson Takes $750,000 to Leave Indiana

      Indianapolis Star  |  Feb 22, 08 9:24 PM CST

      Sampson Takes $750,000 to Leave Indiana

      (Newser) - The Indiana Hoosiers will continue their run to the Big Ten and NCAA titles without their coach. Kelvin Sampson, who has been under fire since Feb. 13 when the NCAA said Indiana was facing major recruiting violations, took a $750,000 buyout and resigned as coach today, reports the Indianapolis Star . Dan Dakich was named interim coach starting with Saturday's game at Northwestern. More »

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      NCAA basketball  • NCAA  • Indiana Hoosiers  • Northwestern University  • Kelvin Sampson  • Dan Dakich

  • October 2007

    • Mussels Inspire Universal Glue

      MIT Technology Review  |  Oct 28, 07 12:11 PM CDT

      Mussels Inspire Universal Glue

      (Newser) - A new adhesive polymer capable of bonding to almost any surface has been identified by researchers at Northwestern University. Described in this week's Science , the adhesive forms an extremely thin layer which can then bind to materials: an antibacterial coating could be applied to a scalpel, or electronic circuits printed on any surface. More »

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      Northwestern University

  • August 2007

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