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

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

The Daily Northwestern


Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates to speak at Northwestern

October 5, 2015

Award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will speak at Northwestern on Oct. 24 in Cahn Auditorium. Coates' already sold-out talk will kick off the annual two-week Chicago Humanities Festival at...

Two Northwestern professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 11, 2015

Two Northwestern professors were elected to the 2015 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society that often supports independent policy research. English Prof. Chris Abani...

English Prof. Chris Abani has received a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, which includes an unrestricted $50,000 grant. Abani, who has been publishing his writing since he was 10, said he wants to bridge the gap between academics and writers.

Writer, English Prof Chris Abani receives national arts fellowship

November 9, 2014

English Prof. Chris Abani has always been a writer. “I published my first short story at 10 and my first novel at 16, so I kind of have always done it my whole life," he said. "There’s never really...

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