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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


Football players jog across the football field. Prof. James Druckman spoke Monday afternoon in Chambers Hall about a recent paper he co-authored which utilizes college athletics as a case study for how identity and social interaction affect opinions on policy change.

College sports show interactions with people from other backgrounds affects policy attitudes, professor suggests

January 6, 2020

Prof. James Druckman spoke Monday afternoon in Chambers Hall about a recent paper he co-authored which utilizes college athletics as a case study for how identity and social interaction affect opinions...

The new chemotherapy drug-delivery system rides through the bloodstream on human serum albumin, disguising itself as fat.

New cancer drug delivers chemo drug directly into tumors

July 31, 2019

Northwestern researchers engineered a new drug-delivery system that cloaks chemotherapeutics as fat to deceive and destroy cancerous tumors. The drug disguises itself as fat molecules, and tumors welcome...

Researchers found academic conferences lack codes of conduct that prevent sexual misconduct and discrimination.

Researchers find current academic conference codes don’t prevent sexual misconduct, discrimination

July 30, 2019

Over the course of their careers, many students and professors attend academic conferences, which can be spaces for networking, research and speaker panels. However, after examining almost 200 biology...

Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road. Researchers at Northwestern made a discovery contending the belief that all light material processes through the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

Researchers discover distinct neural pathway processes interim light exposure

July 26, 2019

Neurobiologists at Northwestern directly tested how the brain processes short exposure to light and found that acute bursts of light do not interfere with the body’s circadian rhythms. The study...

A child plays with their parents. Researchers have recently found evidence supporting a unique set of stereotypes that can be faced by biracial Americans.

Researchers find biracial people face unique set of stereotypes

July 16, 2019

Northwestern researchers have found evidence that a unique set of stereotypes can be applied to biracial Americans, one of the fastest-growing demographics in the country. The team published the study,...

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