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26 unusual facts about Northwestern University


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Alfred Appel

After teaching at Columbia for a few years, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University, where he taught until his retirement in 2000.

Bergen Evans

Bergen Baldwin Evans (September 19, 1904 – February 4, 1978) was an American lexicographer, a Rhodes Scholar, a Harvard College graduate, a Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host.

Clark T. Hinman

Clark Titus Hinman (August 3, 1819 – October 21, 1854) was the first president of Northwestern University.

FSBO Madison

In September 2007 FSBO Madison was the subject of a study conducted by three economists from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin.

Holocaust Educational Foundation

On January 17, 2011 it announced plans to become part of Northwestern University, bestowing a $5 million endowment to the university in support of the program.

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

The first Midwest Leadership Retreat was held at Northwestern University with the West Coast Leadership Retreat hosted by Pomona College.

John H. Leims

After high school, he attended Northwestern University for two and a half years, and worked part-time at the Commonwealth Edison Company.

Louis C. Ajonuma

then a Doctor of Medicine (MD), from the College of Medicine, Lyceum-Northwestern University in 1990.

Martha Sharp

She attended Pembroke College, the women's college of Brown University, and later studied in the field of Social Work at Northwestern University’s Recreation Training School centered in Hull House, a Chicago settlement.

Marvin L. Manheim Award For Significant Contributions in the Field of Workflow

Professor Manheim was a co-founder of both the Black Forest Group and the Workflow Management Coalition, and was also the William A. Patterson Distinguished Professor of Transportation at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University from 1983 until his death in August 2000.

Marvin Manheim

Marvin L. Manheim was the William A. Patterson Distinguished Professor of Transportation at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University from 1983 until his death in August 2000.

Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu

Archives of Tambimuttu's correspondence and papers are dispersed, but the largest collections are at Northwestern University and the British Library.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

Sixty Naval Reserve Freshmen were accepted at each of the original units at the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, University of Washington, Harvard University, Yale University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.

NMFF

Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, a Chicago-area organization of physicians who are affiliated with Northwestern University, treating patients at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and teaching or doing research at the University's Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern garter snake

The northwestern garter snake is small, with adults averaging around 36–53 cm (14–21 inches) in total length.

Northwestern University Lakefill

The Northwestern University Lakefill is an area of land that was reclaimed from Lake Michigan in 1964-1969 from landfill materials made available by the construction of the Port of Indiana.

Ralph Canine

When he left home he was intent on being a doctor, and had completed pre-med studies at Northwestern University when he entered World War I as an Army second lieutenant.

Reede-drum

New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, Florida State University and California State University have featured the reede-drum as the primary instrument of percussion majors.

Robin Weisman

She has two younger siblings, a brother, Alex Weisman and a sister, Brooke, who both studied theatre at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Samuel Schoenbaum

Born in New York, Schoenbaum taught at Northwestern University from 1953 to 1975, serving for the last four years of this period as the Frank Bliss Snyder Professor of English Literature.

Silenziosa Luna

Japanese jiuta-mai dancer Sayuri Uno, American academic Laura Hein (Northwestern University) and Italian philosopher Marco Forlivesi (University of Padua) also made a significant contribution to this process.

Steel Bridge Songfest

In 1995, continuous remote monitoring by Northwestern University's Infrastructure Technology Institute detected new cracks in the track casting, later confirmed by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT).

United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

The U.S. Naval Reserves Midshipmen's School at Northwestern University was established in September 1940, and was in operation until 1945.

During December 1940, the second class to be commissioned in the midshipmen program graduated from Northwestern University as did the third and fourth classes in 1941.

Vladimir Ipatieff

In the US, Ipatieff secured a research-focused chemistry professorship at Northwestern University, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston.


3Degrees

3Degrees’ partners include utilities & Load-Serving Entities (LSEs) such as the City of Palo Alto Utilities and Dominion Resources, renewable energy project owners, institutions and non-profits such as Northwestern University, and businesses such as Whole Foods Market and Starbucks.

Alice Dreger

Alice Domurat Dreger, Ph.D, is an American bioethicist and professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

Andrew Conway Ivy

Ivy trained in medicine and physiology in Chicago and taught at Northwestern University before becoming vice president of the University of Illinois, being responsible for the medicine, dentistry and pharmacy schools.

Conflict Solutions International

However, this Board of Advisors contains professionals from all over the world, including the director of the Outreach Division for the United Nations Department of Public Information, a former Consul General in Washington, DC and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law, International Center for Human Rights in Chicago.

David J. Elliott

He was subsequently appointed assistant, associate, and full professor of music education at U of T. At several points during his career at Toronto he also served as a Visiting Professor at other university music schools, including the University of North Texas, Indiana University, the University of Limerick, Northwestern University, and Rutgers.

Elizabeth Mertz

She has a PhD in Anthropology from Duke University (where she studied with Virginia R. Domínguez and William O'Barr) and a JD from Northwestern University (where she was the John Paul Stevens scholar and a Wigmore Scholar).

Emmet McDermott

Educated at St Ignatius' College and the University of Sydney where he graduated in dentistry, he earned a doctorate of dentistry from Northwestern University in Chicago and became a leader of the dental profession in Australia.

G. Gordon Strong

He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1913 and completed degrees in economics and commerce at the University of British Columbia, an MBA from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Toledo.

Grace McKeaney

She attended Northwestern University and starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

Gregory Kriegsmann

According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, Gregory mentored a total 10 doctoral students (total of 17 descendants) at Northwestern University and New Jersey Institute of Technology including John Pelesko.

Hazel MacDonald

She graduated from Northwestern University in 1913, and wrote for Photoplay magazine, which is considered the precursor to modern celebrity magazines, from 1916 to 1918.

Helen Codere

Her academic appointments spanned five decades and included positions at Vassar College, the University of British Columbia, Northwestern University, Bennington College, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Her academic years spanned over fifty years and included professorships at Vassar College, the University of British Columbia, Northwestern University, Bennington College, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Herman Churchill

Churchill began his academic career as an instructor of English literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1903.

Innovation capitalist

The term Innovation Capitalist was coined by Prof. Satish Nambisan of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Prof.Mohanbir Sawhney of Northwestern University in their article in the Harvard Business Review in March 2007.

Jack L. Treynor

Miller and Modigliani had co-authored their great 1958 and 1963 papers while Modigliani was teaching at Northwestern University.

Jennifer Loven

A Matthews, North Carolina native, Loven graduated from East Mecklinburg High School and then attended University of Virginia and Northwestern University, where she was graduated from the Medill School of Journalism.

Levelland, Texas

However, several prominent UFO researchers, among them Dr. James E. McDonald, a physicist at the University of Arizona, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University, disputed this explanation.

M. Blane Michael

As Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III noted in a 2005 speech published in the Northwestern University Law Review, Michael and Wilkinson jog together in their spare time when they are in Richmond, Virginia to hear oral arguments, even though they have very different judicial perspectives.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

Midget professional wrestling

The hardcore wrestling troupe the Half Pint Brawlers simulated sex, used staple guns as weapons, and performed using other hardcore antics in January 2008 during a Delta Upsilon fraternity event at Northwestern University.

Penny Bernard Schaber

When she returned to the United States, she attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she received a degree in physical therapy.

Robert Beadell

After military service as a bandsman with the United States Marines during the Second World War, Beadell enrolled in the music program at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where his clarinet teacher, Dominick DiCaprio, encouraged him to study composition.

Robert Garrels

In 1974 he returned to Northwestern and published important studies on the sulfur and carbon isotopic compositions of Phanerozoic rocks with Abraham Lerman and Fred MacKenzie.

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Walter P. Murphy Cooperative Engineering Education Program at Northwestern is based on a similar program at Northeastern University.

Shlomo Avineri

Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, most recently, the University of Toronto.

Steven G. Calabresi

Steven G. Calabresi is a professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and a visiting professor at Yale Law School.

Supramolecular assembly

For instance, Samuel I. Stupp and coworkers at Northwestern University showed that a supramolecular assembly of peptide amphiphiles in the form of nanofibers could be used to promote the growth of neurons.

Tingstad and Rumbel

Nancy grew up in San Antonio and continued her musical education at Northwestern University where she was introduced to new influences, styles and intrigued by ethnomusicology which led to her joining the Paul Winter Consort.

University of Denver

John Evans is the namesake of Evans Avenue (which bisects the DU campus and runs through the Denver metro area), Mount Evans (a 14,264 foot mountain visible from DU), and the city of Evanston, Illinois (the site of Northwestern University, founded by Evans prior to his founding of DU).

Worthington Senior High School

Peter Ludlow, prominent analytic philosopher, currently teaching at Northwestern University.

Zdeněk Bažant

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant (born December 10, 1937) is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Zoanne Clack

Born in Missouri City, Texas, she attended Northwestern University majoring in communication studies with a concentration in neurobiology.