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Michael Schill was inaugurated Friday morning as Northwestern’s 17th president. The New York native took office in September 2022, only two months after Rebecca Blank stepped down as president-elect after receiving a cancer diagnosis. Blank died in February. “It broke her heart to step down from the role last summer … the NU community continues...
Newton Minow (Communication ’49, Pritzker ’50), a Northwestern trustee and the Walter Annenberg Professor Emeritus, died Saturday at age 97. Minow, who received the Northwestern Alumni Medal in 1978, joined the Board of Trustees in 1975 and became a life trustee in 1987. “We mourn the loss of Newt, who was a beloved member of...
Peter Barris, chair of the Northwestern Board of Trustees, outlined his goals of supporting University President Michael Schill and improving the scale of research during Faculty Senate on Wednesday. Barris, who lives in Virginia, attended the meeting over Zoom. Barris, who became the Board’s chair in September, said he wants to make NU an “iconic...
Good Sunday morning, Evanston. Here are the most-read news and feature stories from the past week, plus a few new ones as well.
Former University President-elect Rebecca Blank died at age 67 on Feb. 17, the University announced Saturday. Blank, who served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2013 through May 2022, was selected to succeed Morton Schapiro as university president in October 2021. However, last July, she announced she would step down from the role...