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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

Kurt Hansen holds his House Divided hat and Nebwestern T-shirt. The Bienen professor became a faculty member in 1991.

Family, Football and Music: How Kurt Hansen’s love for Northwestern and Nebraska runs through family lines

October 4, 2019

Football As Bienen Prof. Kurt Hansen walked to his car after his Saturday class several years ago, he caught the glares from people in the parking lot. This wasn’t just any normal Saturday...

Paul’s Drag Race: A Northwestern student’s twists and turns to finding a new identity

Paul’s Drag Race: A Northwestern student’s twists and turns to finding a new identity

May 30, 2018

Bienen fourth-year Paul Hunter enters the room wearing black pants and a plain black shirt, looking like any other guy in his early 20s. Well, except for the purple eyebrows. Incongruous with his impeccably...

Zeshan Bagewadi. Bagewadi’s first album, ‘Vetted,’ moved into the Top 10 of Billboard’s World Music chart within a month.

Bienen alum uses music for political activism

February 15, 2018

It’s no secret that the road to “making it” as a musician is not an easy one. Zeshan Bagewadi (Bienen ’09, ’11) had brief stints as an Uber driver, an auto mechanic and a drill press operator...

Frank Laucerica.

Bienen graduate lands role as associate member of Chicago Symphony Chorus

August 5, 2017

For Frank Laucerica (Bienen ’17), pursuing music always seemed natural. After growing up in a musical household and attending performing arts magnet schools for both middle school and high school,...

Opera vocalist Matthew Polenzani, right, teaches a vocal master class to one of four selected NU vocalists. This was Polenzani’s second time teaching at Northwestern, and said he chose to return because of the high caliber of students he worked with last year.

Opera star leads Northwestern master class

January 19, 2017

Opera vocalist Matthew Polenzani returned to Northwestern to teach his second vocal master class with four students on Wednesday. The master class was part of the Robert M. and Maya L. Tichio Vocal...

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