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Newly launched Northwestern Medicine Transplant Institute aims to lead way for transplant innovation • Oct. 27, 2026, 6:00 PM ET (Chicago Sun-Times)
‘I’m so proud of you’: 18 incarcerated women earn Northwestern University degrees • Oct. 24, 2026, 7:00 AM ET (Chicago Tribune)
Physicists Hold Single Antimatter Particle for Months and Control Its Quantum States • Oct. 22, 2026, 5:03 PM ET (Sci.News)
Northwestern University student dies after being pulled from Lake Michigan • Oct. 21, 2026, 5:41 PM ET (CBS)
Body recovered from Lake Michigan in Evanston near Northwestern University campus • Oct. 21, 2026, 12:10 PM ET (CBS)

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

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