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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

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Patty Loew sits in the CNAIR house

Patty Loew, former director of CNAIR, to phase in retirement in 2023

March 2, 2022

Medill Prof. Patty Loew, former director of Northwestern’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, is phasing in her retirement and plans to depart the University in August 2023. Loew,...

Women sit at a table with a sign reading ‘Headquarters Evanston League of Women Voters.’

Prof. Martha Jones lectures on 19th Amendment, disenfranchised Black women voters

March 1, 2022

In a Winona, Mississippi jail cell in the 1960s, a young Black woman sat for three days after an unsuccessful attempt at voter registration. Her name was Fannie Lou Hamer, and the 19th Amendment failed...

An April and May calendar are displayed next to each other. The May calendar has stacks of bills on it.

Biden offers student loan reform but stops short of full cancelation

March 1, 2022

David Gaines (Bienen ’83, Weinberg ’84) was the principal euphonium player in the Connecticut all-state band before he came to Northwestern to study music and philosophy. He went on to pursue a master’s...

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Navigating undergraduate summer research at Northwestern

February 28, 2022

As Winter Quarter comes to a close, Northwestern is opening its summer research opportunities for undergraduate students. According to Associate Director Megan Novak Wood, the Office of Undergraduate...

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Profs head initiative to make NU more accessible for community college transfer students

February 25, 2022

Medill junior Nick Song wanted to be a journalist fresh out of high school.  He decided to take a year off after graduating to experiment with radio and podcasting professionally. After his gap year,...

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