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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


Three people sit and talk on a stage.

Professors break down racial and LGBTQ+ health disparities in forum

November 2, 2022

Medill Prof. and Renberg Chair Steven Thrasher and City University of New York Professor Linda Villarosa discussed racial and LGBTQ+ inequalities in the U.S health system at the Renberg Forum event Tuesday. Moderated...

The Friday monkeypox discussion focused on which community members are most at risk, what the risk factors are and how to prevent that risk.

Northwestern faculty talk monkeypox risk factors at LGBTQ+-focused discussion

September 25, 2022

The Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and the Sexualities Project at Northwestern held an LGBTQ+-focused monkeypox conversation Friday after concerns arose that NU administration was not providing...

Feinberg Prof. Brian Mustanski. He founded and directs the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, which just celebrated its five-year anniversary.

Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing celebrates five-year anniversary, looks back on accomplishments

November 20, 2020

Northwestern’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing celebrated its five-year anniversary on Nov. 5. Founded in 2015, ISGMH aims to better understand and improve the health and...

Defining Safe: Defining the Outside Agitator

Defining Safe: Defining the Outside Agitator

November 12, 2020

Following protests led by student group NU Community Not Cops, University President Morton Schapiro alleged that “Some of the instigators appear not to be Northwestern students at all, but rather outside...

Dr. Steven Thrasher is the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting. His new class provides a space for students to think and learn about how viruses intersect with issues such as race, sexuality, disability, economics and the news media.

Viruses are a tool for understanding systemic racism in Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher’s new course

October 7, 2020

On Oct. 5, four days after President Donald Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19, the students in Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher’s class were meeting on Zoom. “Has there been anything in...

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