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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

Christina Enroth-Cugell and David Cugell, former Northwestern faculty members. The family left over $9 million to the University upon their passing in 2016.

Former Northwestern faculty leave $9.39 million to fund medical research, biomedical engineering

April 16, 2019

Over $9 million left to Northwestern by former professors Christina Enroth-Cugell and David Cugell will help fund research on lung disease, visual neurosciences and biomedical engineering, according to...

Improve NU winners stand with their checks at The Block Museum of Art. McCormick sophomore Lilian de Souza won the competition with her idea, NPowerU.

Proposal for personal security alarms wins second annual Improve NU competition

February 25, 2019

Spectators gathered on Sunday in Kresge Hall and the Block Museum of Art to witness the second annual Improve NU Challenge’s semifinal and final rounds. Improve NU, run by Associated Student Government,...

Tyehimba Jess reads his poems. The poet said he likes to tell less-known stories from history.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet brings stories of African-American creatives to life

February 1, 2019
Jess spoke at the Block Museum of Art on Thursday, reading excerpts from his poetry book “Olio." Jess’s work furthers the museum’s commitment to telling stories from many perspectives, said Susy Bielak, the museum’s associate director of engagement.
Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute, urges nation to unite through love

Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute, urges nation to unite through love

November 8, 2018

Arthur C. Brooks, president of the conservative public policy think tank American Enterprise Institute, doesn’t want everyone to agree with his political views. He wants them to disagree with him. “Together...

David Tolchinsky, the co-director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage at the School of Communication and former department chair of the Radio, Television, Film department. Tolchinsky’s new play, “An Attempt to Heal in the Contemporary World,” examines the theories of Wilhelm Reich, a protégé of Sigmund Freud whose radical theories about the body’s influence on the mind were rejected.

Northwestern professor to premiere play on psychoanalyst at New York festival

October 11, 2018

A&E Some argue life is mind over matter, but revolutionary psychoanalyst and the inspiration of an upcoming New York play Wilhelm Reich would beg to differ. Reich was a protégé of Sigmund Freud...

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