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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


A wall in the Shorefront Legacy Center. Shorefront Legacy Center has been awarded a two-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Shorefront awarded two-year grant for its preservation of the city’s Black history

February 18, 2021

Shorefront Legacy Center was awarded a two-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Wednesday for its archives and local reparations research initiatives. “Shorefront’s two-year grant will...

Northwestern awards $225,000 for seminar series on archiving black arts

October 29, 2019

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Northwestern a $225,000 Sawyer Seminar grant to convene international scholars for a series of seminars titled "The Black Arts Archive: The Challenge of Translation." The...

Crowe Hall, home to the Asian American Studies and Latina and Latino Studies Programs. Using money from a $2.75 million Andrew W. Mellon grant, the programs will begin hiring faculty without tenure homes in other departments.

New council to aid in hiring Asian American and Latinx studies faculty, though students still push for department status

February 26, 2019

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences has authorized the formation of an Intercultural American Studies Council, a group that will conduct faculty searches to appoint tenure-track professors for the Latina...

A book published by Northwestern University Press. Longtime editor Parneshia Jones was recently named NUP’s new director.

Mellon Grant awarded to Northwestern University Press to support increased diversity in academic publishing

February 26, 2019

A $1,205,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to the University of Washington Press will fund three annual cycles of editorial fellows at six university presses including Northwestern’s,...

The 10 emerging artists and their mentors workshops their projects in preparation for their visit to Northwestern. NU kicked off a two-year arts development project in Puerto Rico last August following a pair of devastating hurricanes that hit the island

Through passion and pain, artists rebuild the entertainment scene in Puerto Rico with the aid of Northwestern funding

January 23, 2019

In times of crisis, relief efforts tend to be allocated to the affected people’s most urgent needs, like food, water and housing. But often, the things that get tossed aside — like arts and culture...

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