Northwestern University is planning a memorial service for U.S. journalist James Foley, who was slain by Islamic State militants.
The university says the public service will be held next Thursday at Alice Millar Chapel in Evanston. Foley earned a master’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism in 2008. He was in Syria in 2012 when he was captured by militants.
He was killed in August. Members of the Islamic State said they killed Foley because of U.S. intervention in the conflict in Iraq and Syria.
Northwestern says Foley’s mother, Diana Foley, and grandmother, Olga Wright, plan to attend the service.