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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


Researchers said the cuts in research funding will have long-lasting effects into future innovation.

Researchers express shock, fear over recent stop-work orders, federal funding freeze

April 18, 2025

Feinberg Prof. Ricky Hill was celebrating their birthday late last month the day they began to hear “rumblings” about cancellation of LGBTQ-focused research.  Last week, second-year biomedical...

Northwestern administrators have not yet been notified of the funding freeze or stop-work orders by the federal government. However, the government is expected to produce a list of demands for NU to restore its funding in the following days.

Northwestern advises researchers to delay staffing changes, reduce spending following funding freeze

April 11, 2025

As the Northwestern community attempts to grasp the implications of the Trump administration’s funding freeze, two University administrators advised researchers and principal investigators to delay staffing...

Students and faculty told The Daily that the orders have mostly affected graduate departments under the McCormick School of Engineering.

More than 100 NU graduate projects receive stop-work orders from Department of Defense

April 10, 2025

The same day the Trump administration froze $790 million in funding for Northwestern on Tuesday, more than 100 research projects have received stop-work orders from the Department of Defense since then,...

Undergraduate students at Northwestern University pay some of the highest tuition prices in the nation.

HHS cites incidents of antisemitism in confirmation of Northwestern funding freeze while experts question legality

April 10, 2025

After reports first surfaced Tuesday that the Trump administration had frozen $790 million in federal funding from Northwestern, even the University’s top officials said they’d been left in the dark...

A University spokesperson first confirmed with The Daily on Wednesday that several current and former NU students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security.

NUGW sends letter to Schill urging University to protect non-citizens

April 10, 2025

The Northwestern University Graduate Workers union voted Wednesday to approve a letter urging the University to protect its non-citizen students amid the federal government’s recent terminations of NU...

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