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13 Apr 2013 – 2:41 pm
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Today we remember former Illinois Comptroller and Professor of Law Dawn Clark Netsch, who passed away on March 5th this year. A memorial service in remembrance of her life and service is being held at Northwestern University’s Thorne Auditorium, and we are on site to record and provide overflow room video feeds for the afternoon’s [...]
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26 Oct 2012 – 5:12 pm
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Local and global Wildcats are gathering this weekend for Northwestern University’s annual Alumni Reunion. Classes from the 1962 half century club up through the class of 2007 will be joining us to immortalize the stories they have to tell throughout the day, ranging from the perils of live TV production on campus to the Vietnam [...]
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6 Mar 2012 – 6:19 pm
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NUIT was on site yesterday afternoon to capture Attorney General Eric Holder’s address to the Northwestern community at Thorne Auditorium. Emphasizing the successes the United States government has had in its fight against attempted terrorist incidents, he focused on the much talked about issue of the administration’s authority to target American citizens in this effort [...]
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8 Mar 2011 – 5:39 pm
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NUAMPS provided a streaming camera feed for overflow viewing in addition to technical support at this year’s Howard J. Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar Program, where Northwestern invited Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to speak. She answered questions with topics ranging from her one law school regret to sexism in U.S. courtrooms (and its broader [...]
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1 Feb 2011 – 12:34 pm
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Students braved the vanguard of the snowpocalypse last night, filling the room in Norris where we continued our series of the Humanities Research Workshops. This time, the workshop concentrated on resources and opportunities available for undergraduates. How can you obtain undergraduate research grants so you don’t have to work at Starbucks all summer? [...]
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21 Jun 2010 – 4:24 pm
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Summer is here, which means another round of graduates going out into the world from Northwestern! Storms threatened to rain out the outdoor commencement address in Ryan Field on Friday, but Morty Schapiro made the successful call to keep the ceremony outdoors. NUAMPS provided a live stream for the event, as Michael Wilbon of ESPN [...]
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7 Aug 2009 – 12:15 pm
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A new member of the NUAMPS family was freed from its cardboard prison and brought to life this afternoon. A name hasn’t been chosen yet, but soon I think it will fit in with the rest of its older, but less powerful, siblings.
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6 May 2009 – 2:13 pm
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What do Sonic the Hedgehog, Rapunzel, pharmaceutical black box warnings, Waldo, and a camera jib have in common? Over the last 48 hours, they’ve been involved in NUAMPS projects. We began downtown with Northwestern University’s School of Law, documenting a symposium entitled The Pharmaceutical Industry: Economics, Regulation, and Legal Issues. Instructors and participants from all [...]
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27 Feb 2009 – 3:01 pm
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There was standing room only in Hughes Auditorium during Dean Jameson’s State of the School presentation on February 25th! The presentation included new and continuing research involving the biochemistry of influenza A, immunotolerance treatments, and Parkinson’s Disease. Medical student applications, GPA’s, and MCAT scores have increased significantly over the past year, along with a rise [...]
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14 Nov 2008 – 12:41 pm
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NUAMPS is taping a two-day conference hosted by the Searle Center – the Research Symposium on Property Rights Economics and innovation. Presentations include the impact of counterfeit products on the welfare of consumers, the effects of the presence of copyright on book sales, and the influence of non-practicing patent owners (sometimes called trolls) in the [...]