University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

A still from “Finding Yingying” shows Yingying Zhang in her home country of China. Jenny Shi’s documentary follows the story of Zhang’s disappearance at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

NU alum’s documentary follows international student’s disappearance, wins award at SXSW

April 15, 2020

Two twins. With the Illinois Twins Project, researchers will now have a database from which to find twins and multiples to study.

Northwestern, University of Illinois launch database of twins for research

May 6, 2019

State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) speaks at a forum. Biss introduced legislation that would create a public matching system for campaign donations.

Biss introduces bill to create publicly-funded matching program for small campaign donations

February 10, 2017

Northwestern retains 12th place in U.S. News rankings

Matthew Choi, Copy Chief

September 14, 2016

Northwestern retained its position as the 12th best university in the nation, according to this year's rankings by U.S. News and World Report. The 2017 rankings, released Tuesday, placed NU behind Johns Hopkins University and...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) introduced a bill to Congress on Thursday making select college textbooks free for students. The average student budget for college books and supplies during the previous academic year was $1,235, according to the College Board.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin introduces bill to make most common college textbooks free

October 8, 2015

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