Northwestern University
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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.
Aerial photograph of Northwestern University from Lake Michigan
A postcard of Northwestern University from 1907
Deering Library, which is named in memory of Charles Deering
University Hall (1869), the second building constructed on campus, and the oldest building still standing
Pulitzer Prize
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The Pulitzer Prizes are two-dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
Columbia President Lee Bollinger presents the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to Jeffrey Eugenides
Pulitzer Hall on the Columbia campus