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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Northwestern trustee and former FCC chair Newton Minow dies at 97

May 8, 2023

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...

Northwestern receives $4 million to honor Newton Minow, creates law school professorship

April 21, 2014

Northwestern received $4 million earlier this month to honor Newton Minow, a Northwestern alumnus, trustee and senior counsel at the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin LLP. Minow’s friends, colleagues...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) remembered Northwestern Law Prof. Dawn Clark Netsch on Saturday as "the smartest person in the room." Netsch passed away last month after battling with ALS.

Northwestern Law Prof. Dawn Clark Netsch remembered for ‘absolute, unshakeable integrity’

April 13, 2013

CHICAGO — Illinois' luminaries on Saturday remembered Northwestern Law Prof. Dawn Clark Netsch (Weinberg '48, Law '52) as a brilliant pioneer who broke almost every glass ceiling in state politics. "She...

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