Northwestern junior Federico Burdisso became an Olympic medalist Wednesday in Tokyo, taking home the bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly for his home country Italy.  Burdisso, posting a time of...

2021 has been an eventful year for Andrea Filler (Communication ’15, School of Professional Studies ’16). After getting married to Northwestern baseball alum Kyle Ruchim (Weinberg ’14), Filler fulfilled...

For a lesson in hypocrisy or amnesia, we can turn to the International Olympic Committee. In 1968 Mexico City, John Carlos and Tommie Smith pumped the iconic Black Power salute to protest racial injustice...

Olympian swimmer and gold medalist Michael Phelps is genetically endowed with a proportionally longer wingspan, larger than average hands and feet and a double-jointed chest. These seemingly arbitrary...

Fencing The 2017-18 season has been a banner campaign for Northwestern. The Wildcats won 47 bouts during the regular season and 25 in a row at one point, both highs in team history. They followed...