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

The Daily Northwestern

The history department partnered with Bennison’s Bakery to provide decorated cakes displaying images themed to the department’s Winter Quarter courses.

Cakes and Classes delivers sweet insight into winter history courses

November 7, 2023

Exploring Winter Quarter history courses was easy as cake for students who attended the history department’s recurring Cakes and Classes event, as professors welcomed the sugar rush of eager undergraduates. Twelve...

Scott Hall. The Faculty Senate passed resolutions to help ensure the safety of student athletes in 2021, but six faculty members say University leaders “did not deliver.”

Faculty call for systemic change within athletics department

July 13, 2023

Six Weinberg profs are urging reform to better ensure safety within the NU’s athletics department after former members of Northwestern’s football team came forward with allegations of hazing, including...

LTE: Ryan Field and the Costs of Inequity

LTE: Ryan Field and the Costs of Inequity

May 17, 2023

  As faculty members and sports fans, we have followed the conversations about rebuilding Ryan Field with a mix of interest and uncertainty. So far, debates surrounding the proposed redesign...

Noah Frick-Alofs / Daily Senior Staffer
A group of cyclists ride down Ridge Avenue during the 2018 Bike the Ridge event. The city closed Ridge Avenue to vehicular traffic to create a safe environment for family cycling, with entertainment events such as live music and food trucks.

Annual Bike the Ridge event celebrates safe, family cycling

September 30, 2018

When Seth Green’s daughter Sojourner — Sojo for short — was nine months old, he and his wife, Caitlin Fitz, were heading to Bagel Art for breakfast on a Sunday morning. On the way, they stumbled...

Left to right: Ken Alder, Caitlin Fitz, Joel Mokyr, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. The history department held the talk to celebrate the release of three of their professors’ books in the past year.

History professors discuss recently published books

April 20, 2017

The history department held a talk Wednesday with three of its professors to celebrate the release of their books in the past year, ranging in topics from Latin American independence to the Industrial...

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