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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


Provost Jonathan Holloway speaking this month to incoming students, the first class to include 20 percent of students who are Pell Grant eligible. Holloway and President Morton Schapiro announced the update in a welcome email to students.

With new freshman class, Northwestern reaches admissions goal of 20 percent low-income students

September 30, 2018

Northwestern has reached its goal of admitting a class of 20 percent Pell Grant-eligible students, a step toward increasing access for underrepresented students. Amid notes on the University’s U.S....

In Focus: As Feinberg surpasses initial ‘We Will’ fundraising goal, progress on tuition-free initiative lags behind

In Focus: As Feinberg surpasses initial ‘We Will’ fundraising goal, progress on tuition-free initiative lags behind

May 6, 2018

Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine made a rare announcement in 2014: It would create an endowment large enough to provide a tuition-free education to all medical students. The initiative is...

Alumni donate $1.5 million to establish engagement fund at Block Museum

September 24, 2017

The Block Museum of Art received a $1.5 million gift from Northwestern alumni Stephen Wilson (Weinberg ’70, Kellogg ’74) and Susan Wilson (Medill ’70) to support a new engagement program, according...

The Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern in the Technological Institute. A donation of $5.5 million from NU alumnus Jeff Ubben and his wife Laurie funded the Ubben Program for Climate and Carbon Science.

Ubben family’s $5.5 million donation to ‘We Will’ campaign furthers study of climate change, carbon science

April 9, 2017

A $5.5 million gift to the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern created a program dedicated to climate change and carbon science research, the University announced Wednesday. The...

The Trienens Performance Center is slated to be included in an extensive renovation for Welsh-Ryan Arena. The renovations are made possible by donations from the We Will campaign and are set to begin after the 2016-2017 basketball season.

Trustee donation allows enhancements for revamped athletic facility center

February 16, 2017

A new multi-purpose practice facility will be added to renovation plans for Welsh-Ryan Arena, according to a University news release published Feb. 7. The renovation follows a $20 million gift from...

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