Northwestern University

Northwestern University is recognized both nationally and internationally for the quality of its educational programs at all levels. The main campus is located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinois (240 acres), but the university's professional schools (specifically Law and Medicine), as well as the part-time MBA program are in downtown Chicago, Illinois (25 acres). The University has a total enrollment of approximately 17,000 students and around 6,800 faculty and staff. The school is known as "NU", not "NWU". The name comes from the founders' desire to serve the Northwest Territory.

The school was funded in 1851 and officially opened in 1855.

The school's sports teams are called the Wildcats (before the 1924, they were known as "The Purple" and only unofficially as "The Fighting Methodists"). The school is the member of the Big Ten Conference. The school mascot is Willie the Wildcat.

Royal Purple is the official school color (the Chicago Transit Authority elevated train line that goes through Evanston is the Purple Line--NU stops are Davis, Foster, and Noyes). The phrase on the school's seal is "Quaecumque sunt vera" and are the first words of the University Motto in Latin, meaning "Whatsoever things are true".

The school newspaper is The Daily Northwestern and the school radio station is WNUR (89.3 FM).

Table of contents

1 Schools and Colleges 2 Notable Alumni 3 External Links

Schools and Colleges

• Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (founded 1851)
• School of Communication (1878)
• School of Continuing Studies (1933)
• School of Education and Social Policy (1926)
• Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science (1909)
• Graduate School (1910)
• Medill School of Journalism (1921)
• School of Law (1859)
• J. L. Kellogg School of Management (1908)
• Feinberg School of Medicine (1859)
• School of Music (1859)
• Dental School (1891-2001)

Notable Alumni

• Saul Bellow, author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Warren Beatty, actor
• Cindy Crawford, model (never matriculated)
• Ana Gasteyer, actor, comic (Saturday Night Live)
• Richard Gephardt, U.S. Representative
• Howard Hanson, composer
• Sheldon Harnick, lyricist (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Marg Helgenberger, actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
• Charlton Heston, actor
• Laura Innes, actor (ER (television))
• Cloris Leachman, actor (The Facts of Life)
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actor (Seinfeld)
• Gary Marshall, director, producer
• Ann-Margret Olsson, actor (never matriculated)
• Charles H. Mayo, doctor (Mayo Clinic)
• Charlotte Rae, actor (The Facts of Life)
• Katherine Shindle, Miss America 1998
• David Schwimmer, actor (Friends)
• Nicole Sullivan, actor (MAD TV)
• John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court justice

External Links

• http://www.northwestern.edu -- Official Northwestern University website
• The Daily Northwestern