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Eight-year-old Lyan is a brain cancer survivor. She is one of the thousands of cancer survivors who've been treated at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. She was selected to pose for a portrait, which will displayed on a banner at the annual Cancer Survivors' Walk and Celebration in Chicago's Grant Park, Sunday June 2, 2013. Watch her story. Register for the walk: cancer.northwestern.edu/walkCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Ca, Northwestern University, June 2, Portrait, picture, Lyan, brain tumor, brain cancer, child, walk and survivor
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Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro discusses key issues facing the University.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Morton Schapiro, Northwestern University, Conversations and 2013
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The iconoclastic Asphalt Orchestra brightened an otherwise gray day Friday (April 12) when the 12-member New York marching band showed up on campus for an impromptu noontime “flash performance.” Full story: bit.ly/1597yF3Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, music, flash mob and band
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That smoke you smelled on the Evanston campus today wasn’t from a spring break barbecue. Northwestern University Facilities Management oversaw the annual prescribed burn around the lagoon near Norris University Center. Controlled by trained firefighters, the maintenance procedure acts as a deterrent to invasive species and promotes the growth and health of prairie grasses and other native plants. Full story: bit.ly/YF7t7HCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University and facilities
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Mariachi Northwestern, one of Northwestern's newest student groups, is spreading the Mexican folk music sounds of Mariachi across campus.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Mariachi, music and students
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When Roy Elvove (Communication ’75, Medill ’76) was a senior, he served as public relations chairman for the first NUDM event in 1975. This year his son Zach, a freshman in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, is serving as a communications co-chairman on the public relations subcommittee and dancing in the event. Full story: bit.ly/13JEOlICast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Dance Marathon, alumni and dance
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More than 1,000 students spent 30 hours dancing and raised a record-breaking $1,214,632. Primary beneficiary the Danny Did Foundation received $741,394.10, and secondary beneficiary the Evanston Community Foundation received $82,377.12. Full coverage: bit.ly/Y0lclSCast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, Dance Marathon, fundraiser, epilepsy, college, tradition, music and dancing
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Take a peek inside the Dance Marathon tent as dancers show off their moves to "Gangnam Style." Full coverage: bit.ly/Y0lclSCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Dance Marathon, fundraiser, music, dance and Gangnam Style
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For the 17th consecutive year, Northwestern alumnus Jay Sims (McCormick '97) will be spinning the tunes that keep Dance Marathon participants going for 30 hours. Full story: bit.ly/WtnuPqCast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, Dance Marathon and fundraiser
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Acclaimed Chicago chef Rick Bayless attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Frontera Fresco eatery located in Norris University Center. Full story: bit.ly/WVniSDCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Rick Bayless, Frontera Fresco, campus, eating, Mexican and dining
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Students, faculty and staff enjoyed a performance by a cappella group Freshman Fifteen and a cake in the shape of Norris to commemorate the student center's 40th anniversary. Full story: bit.ly/W72lpgCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Norris, students, college, student activities and history
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To celebrate Northwestern's 162nd birthday on January 28, we're collecting photos of Wildcats with the Rock, an emblem of campus life and one of Northwestern's oldest traditions. Send your photos to socialmedia@northwestern.edu so they can be included in a slide show displayed on screens across campus and posted online during the weeklong birthday celebration. You can also tweet your photos to @NorthwesternU with the hashtag #NURocks. Spread the word and stay tuned for more info on birthday activities! Please submit your photos by January 23! Thanks and Go 'Cats!Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, students, alumni, rock, tradition and photos
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Get a glimpse of the excitement as Northwestern won its first bowl game in 64 years. Full coverage: bit.ly/YZnt0WCast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, football, Gator Bowl, Pat Fitzgerald, Wildcats, history and college
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Take a look back at Northwestern University video highlights from 2012. Full story: bit.ly/TvlvVCCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, video moments and 2012
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In July 2011, just before coming to Northwestern, Jun Sung Ahn, a classically trained violinist who can play pop melodies by ear, was urged on by friends to make his debut on YouTube with his rendition of “Lighters” by Eminem. Since then he has been playing violin covers of pop songs to tens of thousands of fans on YouTube, making many of the videos from his NU dorm room. Check him out on YouTube: youtube.com/user/JuNCurryAhn Ahn is best known online for his dance and violin cover of “Gangnam Style" by Psy. It has drawn more than 2.4 million views on YouTube, and the video won first place in a competition that Psy held in South Korea.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Jun Sung Ahn, YouTube star, violin and pop songs
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Full story: bit.ly/V6oow3Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, city, politics and mayor
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Here's a mashup of all the entries we received for our Go U 100 Northwestern Fight Song Centennial Contest. Thanks to everyone who submitted! Go 'Cats!Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, fight song, football and tradition
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After 42 years and a beautiful renovation, the Northwestern community can once again enter the iconic Deering Library through its front doors. Full story: bit.ly/WWqkv0Cast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, Deering Library, library and tradition
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See photos and hear stories from 40 years of student activities at Norris University Center. See full story for the schedule of celebration events: bit.ly/OryIinCast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, Norris, students, college, student activities and history
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After spending their first night on campus, the Northwestern Class of 2016 joined their parents for the fourth annual "March Thru the Arch." Full story: bit.ly/Scwy6FCast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, tradition, freshmen, Evanston, college and students
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We asked the Northwestern community to share their Wildcat Wisdom with the Class of 2016. Watch the video above to see their advice on how to make the most of the Northwestern experience. Click the link to see Facebook posts and tweets with more #WildcatWisdom: bit.ly/Tf1A0qCast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, freshmen, college and advice
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This movie shows the cooling of 20 mm hydrophilic (left) and superhydrophobic (right) steel spheres in 100 C water. The spheres' initial temperature is about 380 C. The bubbling phase of boiling is completely eliminated for steel spheres with superhydrophobic coating.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags:
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Northwestern University Library is joining the worldwide centennial celebration of John Cage with an exhibit that will draw from its Music Library’s collection -- one of the most important collections of the famous avant-garde American composer’s work. To introduce the new exhibit, the library staged a lunchtime orchestral performance on Sept. 5 of one of Cage’s most widely known compositions 4’33”. The title stands for the four minutes and 33 seconds that performers are asked not to play their instruments. Full story: bit.ly/SjZfkeCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, John Cage, library, art and music
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Many School of Communication alumni have graduated to successful stage careers in Chicago, thanks to Northwestern’s close proximity to the city and the theater department’s vast network of faculty and alumni who have been giving Northwestern a good name in the theater community for decades. The most recent example of the school’s pervasive presence in the Chicago spotlight is a new production of “Hero” at the Marriott Lincolnshire. Full story: bit.ly/TJTFVsCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, theater, musical, Hero, Michael Mahler, alumni and stage
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Chicago has an opportunity to become a global leader in medical research, and lead the way in finding tomorrow’s cures. Building a new research facility on the site of the old Prentice Women’s Hospital, Northwestern University can help our city become a global leader in medical research and innovation. Chicago can find tomorrow’s cures, if we let it. This video highlights the groundbreaking research this new facility will enable.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University Feinberg, Medical Research and ALS
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They descended on Northwestern University from around the country for a summer of academic enrichment. Three weeks later, 20 academically gifted fourth- to sixth-graders were ready for the biggest race of their lives. As part of Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development Summer Program, students in the three-week “Designing Machines That Work” class recently competed in a racing tournament to see whose custom-designed car would reign supreme. Full story: bit.ly/P0ao5DCast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, summer, Center for Talent Development, gifted, middle school and programs
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Italian students got a taste of American college life this summer. Northwestern University welcomed 30 students from Bocconi University in Milan for an exchange program through Northwestern’s Office of International Program Development and Bocconi’s Campus Abroad program. Bocconi is the premier institution of business and economics in Italy and several faculty from Northwestern’s Economics department have received degrees from the university. The Bocconi students spent nearly a month in daily lectures, including an Economics of Globalization course taught by professor Paolo Epifani of Bocconi University, who traveled to the United States with the group. Northwestern Professors Mark Witte and Mary Pattillo taught the students in seminars on topics ranging from economics to the city of Chicago and President Barack Obama’s presidency. Excursions to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Obama's national campaign headquarters and city landmarks and museums rounded out the exchange program. Last year six Northwestern students studied at Bocconi and 10 Northwestern students will study there this fall.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Bocconi University, Northwestern University, Exchange, Study and Mary Pattillo
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Several major campus construction projects have begun this summer, including the new music/communication building, a mid-campus green space and new traffic signals on Sheridan Road. Full story: bit.ly/PlXOiHCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, music, communication, building and construction
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Watch the commencement action unfold at Ryan Field. Produced by Nate Bartlett, Communication '13. Full graduation coverage: bit.ly/LMB5ZeCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, commencement, graduation, timelapse, Ryan Field and seniors
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Northwestern's newest graduates share their memories and hopes for the future at Northwestern's 154th Commencement ceremony, which featured an address by Paul Farmer. Full coverage: bit.ly/LMB5ZeCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, graduation, commencement and seniors
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Just before commencement 2012 began, the Northwestern University Alumni Association chartered a new club, the Northwestern Alumni Club of Qatar. This will be the first Northwestern alumni club in the Middle East and a way for new graduates of Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) and expats living in the region to connect and stay involved with their alma mater. “It will be great to collaborate every once in a while and meet up and see all the great things we are up to,” said NU-Q graduate Florent D'Souza. The charter was presented to Everette Dennis, Dean of NU-Q, by Charles Katzenmeyer, president of the Northwestern Alumni Association, about an hour before the first graduates of NU-Q joined their Evanston and Chicago classmates on Ryan Field for Commencement.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Commencment and 2012
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She’s graduating with the highest grade point average in Northwestern University’s Qatar class of 2012, rounding out a college career that includes international internships, public service and a multimedia portfolio of self-produced documentaries, news stories and web features. Get to know Benazir Karim, the first valedictorian from Northwestern University in Qatar’s first graduating class.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Benazir Karim, Northwestern University, Qatar, 2012, Valedictorian, NU-Q and journalism
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Two hundred people signed up for the National Bone Marrow Registry at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University’s 19th Annual Cancer Survivors' Celebration and Walk, June 3, 2012. Save the date for next year's walk, Sunday, June 2, 2012! cancer.northwestern.eduCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Be the Match, Bone Marrow, Blood Stem Cells, Northwestern, Lurie Cancer Center, Walk, Celebration, Survivors Day and Mark Chibnik
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The Northwestern community took a break from finals June 4 to recognize the University's most consistent champions -- the women's lacrosse team. Full story: bit.ly/LtNDmICast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, women's lacrosse, lacrosse, championship and NCAA
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A new swing dance class is helping predominantly left-brained engineering students to exercise their right brain -- and maybe even conquer their two left feet. Full story: bit.ly/Nd8DSWCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, dance, swing and engineering
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Conceptual artist Allan Kaprow’s seminal sculpture/performance work “Fluids” was recreated on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus in an event presented by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and the department of art theory and practice Monday, May 21.Cast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, art, museum, Allan Kaprow, ice and sculpture
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The new building will house the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music and the School of Communication (on the top floor) on the southeast corner of campus, in a space that will make “a dream come true” and be a magnet for showcasing visual arts, theater, performance, music and dance. Full story: bit.ly/KeNIw1Cast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, music, communication, building and construction
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President Morton Schapiro praised the inaugural graduating class of Northwestern University in Qatar in a ceremony brimming with purple pride -- from the decorations to the joy in the faces of family, friends and Northwestern faculty and staff. Amid tears, cheers and standing ovations, the 36 members of the Class of 2012 made history as the first students at NU-Q to earn Bachelor of Science degrees in journalism and communication. Along the way, they impressed their professors, won numerous awards and grew into young men and women ready for the 21st-century media world.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Qatar, 2012, Inaugural Commencement. media and journalism
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President Morton Schapiro praised the inaugural graduating class of Northwestern University in Qatar in a ceremony brimming with purple pride -- from the decorations to the joy in the faces of family, friends and Northwestern faculty and staff. Amid tears, cheers and standing ovations, the 36 members of the Class of 2012 made history as the first students at NU-Q to earn Bachelor of Science degrees in journalism and communication. Full coverage: bit.ly/KG2zSTCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Qatar, graduation, commencement, education and Middle East
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At a well-attended event today, members of the Medill and Northwestern University community were introduced to Bradley J. Hamm, who in September will succeed John Lavine as dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Hamm since 2005 has served as dean and professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism. Full story: bit.ly/IID2I4Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Medill, journalism, dean, college, academics and multimedia
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You wouldn't want to go up against Heather in a hula hoop contest or on a trampoline. This 33-year-old middle school teacher can match the energy of her 4-year-old niece. Unless you were told, you would never guess that Heather has been engaged in a five-year battle with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Join Heather and others whose lives have been touched by cancer on Sunday, June 3, 2012, in Chicago's Grant Park, for the 19th Annual Cancer Survivors' Celebration & Walk. Register now: cancer.northwestern.edu/public/programs_events/events/2012/06_june/walk/index.cfm No pledges are required to be part of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University's tribute to cancer survivors - and the strides being made in cancer treatment and research! The event, held on National Cancer Survivors Day, includes a non-competitive walk along the lakefront, family entertainment, t-shirt and refreshments. Registration is $15 in advance and $25 the day of the walk. 8:30 a.m. rain or shine! Chicago's Grant Park Columbus Drive at BalboCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern University, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Ca, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Heather Schumacher, Leo I. Gordon, stem cell transplant and sibling
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Watch Northwestern University biomedical inventor scientists go on "speed dates" with business entrepreneurs who are experienced in starting new companies.Cast: Northwestern NewsTags: Northwestern Univeristy, INVO, speed dating, inventors, biomedical and NUCATS
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Join us Sunday, June 3, 2012, in Chicago's Grant Park, for the 19th Annual Cancer Survivors' Celebration & Walk. This is the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University's tribute to cancer survivors — and the strides being made in cancer treatment and research! No pledges are required to be part of the event, which includes a non-competitive walk along the lakefront, family entertainment, t-shirt and refreshments. Registration is $15 in advance and $25 the day of the walk. Register now: secure.cancer.northwestern.edu/walk_2012_final/register.cfm 8:30 a.m. rain or shine! Chicago's Grant Park Columbus Drive at BalboCast: Northwestern NewsTags: Lurie Cancer Center, Survivors Walk and 2012
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The study of Chinese at Northwestern University received a high-tech assist during winter quarter, as two Chinese language classes participated in the Northwestern iPad Project to evaluate the effectiveness of the iPad as a language-learning tool. Full story: bit.ly/IU0YDuCast: Northwestern News and Matt PaolelliTags: Northwestern University, ipad, Chinese, language, college and technology
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