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Northwestern University stories: 15 news summaries

Student Journos in Court Over Murder Investigation

Northwestern's acclaimed Innocence Project under fire

Nov 11, 09 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - A group of Illinois journalism students found themselves in court yesterday, accused of flirting with and paying off sources during a 2003-2006 investigation for the Medill Innocence Project. The Northwestern students claim to have uncovered evidence exonerating Anthony McKinney, convicted in 1982 of murdering a security guard. Both sides went... More »

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murder • journalism • Illinois • wrongful conviction • journalist • Innocence Project • Northwestern University • Anthony McKinney

 To Predict Flu, 
 Follow the Money 

Looking at how bills travel lets researchers predict shape of epidemic

May 4, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientific research requires funding, but in the case of the Northwestern University team modeling the spread of swine flu in the near future, actual dollar bills are an important element of their analysis. The team has used information from a website that tracks the movement of money to predict how... More »

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money • Indiana University • pandemic • Northwestern University • swine flu • epidemic modeling

(Newser) - A Chicago family is trying to use its household spending to invest in the black community by buying exclusively from black-owned businesses for 1 year, the Tribune reports. The Andersons’ ambitious “Ebony Experiment” has them driving 14 miles for groceries (and farther for other stuff) and has earned hate... More »

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race • Chicago • African Americans • economics • business • black • experiments • African-Americans • Northwestern University

Northwestern Using Emails
to Combat File Sharing

Campus prefers education campaign to punishment

Aug 28, 08 8:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Northwestern University has a way to decrease peer-to-peer sharing of copyrighted files: send students emails. The system, called Be Aware You’re Uploading, delivers email notifications to active p2p users on the network, Ars Technica reports. BAYU has a successful track record of reducing p2p usage and copyright violations. It’... More »

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email • copyright • file sharing • University of Michigan • p2p • peer to peer • open source • copyright infringement • illegal downloading • Northwestern University

Where to Get Your JD, ASAP

Northwestern to join ranks of universities offering 2-year law degree program

Jul 24, 08 8:02 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 Yoga Turning 
 B-Schoolers 
 on Their Heads 

Capitalists latch on to search for inner peace

Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 Chicago Mayor 
 a  'Letdown,'
 Grads Moan 

Northwestern seniors, hoping for a bigger name, not pleased with Daley as speaker

May 29, 08 2:01 PM CDT
(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.... More »

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Richard Daley • commencement speech • Northwestern University

OPINION

Dartmouth Prof to Sue 'Fascist' Students

Furious that class questioned her 'ecofeminist' analysis

May 6, 08 5:37 PM CDT
(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 ... More »

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lawsuit • Dartmouth College • patriarchy • Northwestern University

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

Meanwhile, Northwestern yanks honorary degree offer

May 1, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Law Students Object to Springer Speech

Northwestern rules
in favor of alum as graduation headliner

Apr 28, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(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... More »

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law school • commencement speech • Jerry Springer • Northwestern University

Quantum Internet
Gets Closer

New kind of Net would be automatically secure

Apr 15, 08 12:40 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 New Electronics 
 Can Stretch, Fold 

Bendable circuits perform as well as rigid circuitry

Mar 28, 08 1:42 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Sampson Takes $750,000 to Leave Indiana

Buyout comes as coach, university face
recruiting violations

Feb 22, 08 9:24 PM CST
(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 ... More »

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

Mussels Inspire Universal Glue

Adhesive polymer is micro-thin, can be used to create flexible electronic circuits

Oct 28, 07 12:11 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Northwestern University

Top 10 US Business Schools

Step it up a notch (and raise your profile) at these elite centers of learning.

Aug 19, 07 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forbes ranked these business schools not only on their prestige but for their return on investment.
  1. Dartmouth (Tuck)
  2. Stanford
  3. Harvard
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Columbia University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • University of Chicago • list • business school • Dartmouth • University of Virginia • Harvard • Northwestern University

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