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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


Medill Profs. Arionne Nettles, Peter Slevin and Karen Springen are three of many that have reported and written while teaching at Northwestern.

Double duty: From The New Yorker to WBEZ, Medill professors balance teaching and reporting

November 9, 2023

Medill Prof. Peter Slevin’s most recent story for The New Yorker was almost a year in the making. His idea for a profile on Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, titled “The Billionaire Hotel Heir — and...

A brick building with windows and white pillars in the front. A black sign reads “Northwestern University” and identifies the several offices that work in the building.

Office of Undergraduate Research suspends URAP due to rise in SURG applications

April 2, 2023

Weinberg junior Jane Mavis was planning to work in a Northwestern clinical psychology lab this summer. It would have been one of her first experiences in a formal research setting, which she said would...

A colorful graphic with a blue background and multiple illustrations of the actual COVID-19 virus around the screen depicted as green circles with red spikes. There are multiple vials of the COVID-19 vaccine in the graphic with a large vial at the center with a large needle at the center of the image in front of the largest vial.

How members of the Northwestern community can get vaccinated

April 7, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccines become available to more Cook County residents, an increasing number of Northwestern community members are getting vaccinated through University and local initiatives.  NU has...

Affording NU: Don’t assume everyone knows how to network

November 13, 2018

In this series, a writer explores the everyday struggles of being a low-income student at Northwestern. In my last column, I discussed the requirement I saw on many internship applications: “Previous...

Officers respond to the eventual gun threat hoax on Wednesday.

Faculty, staff reflect on Wednesday lockdown, gun hoax

March 16, 2018

During a Wednesday lockdown that lasted over an hour, art librarian Cara List sat with about 50 students in Deering Library, doing her best to be responsible for student safety as the threat of a gunman...

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