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Date 1851 - present
Notable Alumni John Paul Stevens • Gresham M. Sykes • George McGovern • Robert F. Furchgott • Mary Zimmerman • Mateusz Morawiecki • J.B. Pritzker • Stephen Colbert • Lisa Franchetti • Rahm Emanuel • Cindy Crawford • Garry Marshall • Julia Louis-Dreyfus • Meghan, duchess of Sussex • Warren Beatty • Cloris Leachman • David Schwimmer • Jerry Reinsdorf • Charlton Heston • Andrew Mason • Veronica Roth • Patricia Neal • Jerry Springer • Aleksandar Hemon • Saul Bellow • Gillian Flynn • Florence Kelley • Andrew Bird • Kathy Reichs • Johnnetta Cole • Joseph Kerwin • Tony Randall • John Hoeven • Harold Washington • Ivan Albright • John H. Johnson • Fay-Cooper Cole • George J. Stigler • Albert Hoyt Taylor
Related People Gary Barnett

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Alice Millar Chapel and Religious Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Charles Deering Memorial Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Explore the rich history and technological advancement of the audiology department at Northwestern University's Center for Audiology, Speech, Language, and Learning
Hear Dr. Teepu Siddique talk about his research on the cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Mikhail Baryshnikov's commencement speech at Northwestern in 2013
Join a climate-change research team collecting samples from the bottom of Greenland's Arctic lakes
What are gravitational waves and how were they first detected?
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