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Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest chartered university in Illinois. The university has its main campus along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago metropolitan area. Chartered by the Illinois General Assembly in 1851, Northwestern was initially affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church but later became non-sectarian. By 1900, the university was the third-largest university in the United States. Northwestern became a founding member of the Big Ten Conference in 1896 and joined the Association of American Universities in 1917. Northwestern is composed of eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools which includes Kellogg School of Management, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences among others. In addition to the Evanston campus, it has campuses in downtown Chicago, Coral Gables, San Francisco, Doha, and Washington, D.C. As of 2023, the university had an endowment of $14.1 billion, an annual budget of around $2.9 billion, and research funding of over $1 billion. The university fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams, the Northwestern Wildcats, which compete in the NCAA Division I in the Big Ten Conference. As of September 2020, 33 Nobel Prize laureates and 2 Fields Medalists were affiliated with Northwestern as alumni or faculty. In addition, Northwestern has been associated with 47 Pulitzer Prize winners, 23 National Medal of Science winners, 11 National Humanities Medal recipients, 23 MacArthur Fellows, 20 Rhodes Scholars, and 28 Marshall Scholars. Northwestern alumni also include 10 living billionaires, 2 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and 25 Olympic medalists. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Authors educated at Northwestern University 6775
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Edward C. Green
Alston Scott Householder
Stephanie March
Steve Albini
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Katherine MacGregor
Robert Todd Lincoln
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Melford Spiro
Katrina Adams
Marilyn Quayle
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Fred de Cordova
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane
Inga Swenson
John Cameron Mitchell
Laura Lippman
Joseph P. Kerwin
Leigh Taylor-Young
Paddy Driscoll
Loy W. Henderson
Mary Beth Peil
Richard Kind
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Robert Thompson
Sybil Bauer
Grace Bumbry
Kay Davis
Jocelyn Burdick
Jayne Atkinson
Peter George Peterson
David Gaines
Francis H. Case
Heather Headley
Kirsten Nelson
Claire Coffee
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