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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

The Technological Institute. Northwestern hosted its EXCEL Scholars program for McCormick freshmen virtually this summer.

EXCEL Scholars program successful despite moving virtual

September 29, 2020

In early May, Ellen Worsdall, McCormick’s assistant dean, was working from home when she learned the Melville and Jane Hodge EXCEL Scholars program was in danger of being canceled. Northwestern had closed...

SQMS director Anna Grassellino and deputy director James Sauls hold a superconducting radio-frequency cavity at Fermilab. These cavities play a pivotal role in developing quantum technologies.

NU receives $115 million federal grant to research and develop “beyond state-of-the-art” quantum computer

September 23, 2020

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a partnership between NU and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, was selected as one of...

Students from Bienen and other schools with hands-on majors are figuring out what online learning is going to look like.

Ahead of switch to online classes, the future of hands-on curricula remains unclear

March 21, 2020

Following University President Morton Schapiro’s email announcing the switch to online classes until further notice, many students with hands-on majors said they were confused as to how the transition...

The Technological Institute, where many McCormick classes are taught.

McCormick dean: All final exams will be optional for undergraduates

March 15, 2020

The McCormick School of Engineering announced that all outstanding final exams should be made optional in an email sent to students Sunday morning. McCormick’s announcement follows a University email...

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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