The Other Cover: Winter 2023

Strike Up the Band

Northwestern University Libraries is digitizing nearly 400 video recordings of the Northwestern University “Wildcat” Marching Band and other musical performances from 1930 through the late 1990s. During the two-year project, library staff have uncovered memorable moments from the marching band’s trips to the 1995 Rose Bowl and 1997 Citrus Bowl, performances at Chicago’s Wrigley Field and Soldier Field, and Northwestern Bienen School of Music concerts.

Donor Challenge Creates New Professorships

Confronting the Pandemic and Social Injustice

Northwestern has a hard-earned and growing reputation for excellence, but that excellence is for a purpose: to be in a position to make the fullest possible contribution to our world precisely at moments like the one that we are in now.