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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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Wildcats on the run: NU students race in 2022 Chicago Marathon

October 9, 2022

Last November, McCormick sophomore Cate Mathews and her friends entered the lottery for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon as a “funny, mutually-assured-destruction plot.”  Mathews received an...

Medicine director speaks about record-breaking decline in cancer mortality rates

Medicine director speaks about record-breaking decline in cancer mortality rates

January 12, 2020

A recent annual statistical report by the American Cancer Society revealed the largest yearly drop in deaths from cancer on-record between 2016 and 2017 and a 29 percent decrease from 1991 to 2017. Dr....

McCormick professor develops ‘world’s smallest wearable device’

January 8, 2018

Ultraviolet light detection may soon be at — or in — our fingertips. In collaboration with L’Oréal, McCormick Prof. John Rogers has developed what he says is the world’s smallest wearable device....

Nearly 700 students participate in Relay for Life

May 17, 2015

About 700 students participated in Relay for Life this weekend, raising nearly $100,000 for the American Cancer Society. The annual 12-hour event began with speaker Jonny Imerman, who discussed his...

700 Northwestern students raise more than $100K at annual Relay For Life

May 18, 2014

At age 26, Jonny Imerman said the last thing he was thinking about was his health. Even after doubling over in pain one night when he was out with his friends, forced to hobble to his car in what he...

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