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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


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Northwebster: A dictionary for translating Northwestern’s dialect

August 12, 2022

We’re all too familiar with the feeling when you’re introduced to a new atmosphere and you’re using Google Maps to get around campus. And when you ask for directions, you get hit with jargon like...

Fine: Redesigning DTC

Fine: Redesigning DTC

October 27, 2020

Design Thinking and Communication, also known as DTC, is the dreaded two-quarter course sequence that McCormick students must take during their freshman year. On paper, DTC seems like a fantastic and innovative...

Fine: How Russian literature helped me understand sexism in McCormick

January 7, 2020

I’ve never been directly confronted and told that I should not be studying engineering because of my gender. There was no big, dramatic incident of sexism that caused me to begin to feel unwelcome in...

The Technological Institute, where many engineering classes are held. The McCormick School of Engineering’s tenure-line faculty is only 13 percent female.

Overlooked: Female engineers struggle with lack of equity, but find solidarity with female professors

May 2, 2019

This article is the first in “Overlooked,” a series that explores the experiences of underrepresented groups in different spaces on campus. In the fall of her freshman year, McCormick sophomore...

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