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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Fine: Science is creative and should be taught accordingly

Fine: Science is creative and should be taught accordingly

January 30, 2020

Science and engineering are inherently creative and explorative fields. For every question that a scientist answers, they find themselves with thousands more, ushering in further innovations and discoveries....

Fine: Expanding the scope of “whole brain engineering”

Fine: Expanding the scope of “whole brain engineering”

January 14, 2020

Like most Northwestern students, any time I meet someone new, I introduce myself with my name and my majors. So, here we go. I’m Simona and I’m a sophomore majoring in materials science and engineering...

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...

Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road. Nathan Gianneschi, a professor of materials science and engineering and biomedical engineering in McCormick, co-led a development of new nanotechnology.

Researchers develop innovative nanotechnology

June 28, 2019

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Northwestern and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have developed a new technique of electron microscopy that allows examination of nanoscale tubular materials...

The basement of Technological Institute. Data collected by Northwestern Career Advancement showed that non-STEM majors were equally attractive as STEM majors in the job market.

Career advancement office sheds light on the pro-STEM bias, says that it’s a myth

March 7, 2019

Despite common perceptions among students that science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors are more likely to be hired, recent data shows that this may not be the case. Data collected by...

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