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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


Football players jog across the football field. Prof. James Druckman spoke Monday afternoon in Chambers Hall about a recent paper he co-authored which utilizes college athletics as a case study for how identity and social interaction affect opinions on policy change.

College sports show interactions with people from other backgrounds affects policy attitudes, professor suggests

January 6, 2020

Prof. James Druckman spoke Monday afternoon in Chambers Hall about a recent paper he co-authored which utilizes college athletics as a case study for how identity and social interaction affect opinions...

SESP Prof. Diane Schanzenbach. Schanzenbach has been elected to the National Academy of Education, a prestigious team of scholars dedicated to the advancement of impactful education research.

SESP Prof. Diane Schanzenbach elected to National Academy of Education

February 12, 2019

SESP Prof. Diane Schanzenbach has been elected to the National Academy of Education, a selective team of scholars committed to advancing “high-quality research to improve education policy and practice,”...

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...

Annenberg Hall. A SESP economist co-authored Institute for Policy Research working paper studying the effects of sexism on women from childhood to adulthood.

Institute for Policy Research findings say sexism from childhood shadows women into adulthood

September 30, 2018

Sexist attitudes in the place a woman grows up can affect their socioeconomic outcomes long after childhood, even after they have migrated to another state, says a new Institute for Policy Research working...

The Donald P. Jacobs Center, 2001 Sheridan Rd. Construction on the Jacobs Center could begin next summer at the earliest.

Jacobs Center to house social sciences; construction could begin summer 2019

May 22, 2018

The recently vacated Donald P. Jacobs Center will become a social sciences “hub” in the coming years, but construction won’t begin until summer 2019 at the earliest, Provost Jonathan Holloway told...

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