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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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Students and alumni to celebrate Homecoming week with food trucks, tailgates and football

October 6, 2022

Alumni and current students will come together this weekend for football, a pep rally and lots of free food as part of Northwestern’s annual Homecoming Week. Planned by the Homecoming Committee, a...

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‘Factions of Sol’ game developed by NU alum starts to see success after two years of development

September 27, 2022

A new board game, Factions of Sol, created by a startup from The Garage, is blasting off toward success. Mark IV Games, founded in 2019, produced the game. Founder and CEO Elam Blackwell (Communication...

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NU to award honorary degrees to Board of Trustees Chair J. Landis Martin, commencement speaker Isabel Wilkerson, among others

May 9, 2022

Northwestern will award honorary degrees to three alumni and commencement speaker Isabel Wilkerson for their contributions to arts, sciences and leadership at its commencement June 13. In addition to...

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Former NU student Ana Cornell explores future of genetic testing with Acorn Genetics

May 2, 2022

Former Northwestern student Ana Cornell spoke her first English words at five years old to instruct children scurrying around her “run field.” Cornell said she was always a “very bossy young child”...

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Amid ongoing push for AASP departmentalization, alum David Kan speaks about 1995 hunger strike for the program

April 6, 2022

While he was an undergraduate at Northwestern, David Kan (Weinberg ’95, Feinberg ’99) didn’t eat for three days, striking with members of the Asian American Advisory Board to advocate for an Asian...

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