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Were it not for a sportswriter in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Northwestern's athletic teams might still be known as ?The Purple.? Writing in 1924, Wallace Abbey said of Northwestern's football team: "Football players had not come down from Evanston; wildcats would be a name better suited to [Coach Glenn] Thistletwaite's boys.? Since then the Wildcats have […]
?I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear ?? - Walt Whitman [btn-post-package]The ?varied carols? described by Whitman in his immortal poem remind us of an important truth about our country, one that?s inscribed on the Great Seal of the United States: E Pluribus Unum. From the many, one. Whitman?s writing was in praise […]
Imagine discovering the impossible: Something so significant it affects the course of scientific thought dating back to Albert Einstein?s theory of relativity. Astrophysicist Dr. Frederic Rasio knows that feeling. For the past 20 years, Rasio, the Joseph Cummings professor of physics at Northwestern University, has been using computational modeling to understand the life-cycle of globular clusters. […]
[btn-post-package]Doffing cap and gown, thousands of Big Ten students recently made one of the biggest transitions of their lives. These newly-minted college graduates are poised to face the challenges of an ever-changing world beyond campus. If an education from one of the best universities in the nation wasn?t enough, they also received valued advice from […]