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NU goes ‘tests optional’ for Class of 2025

Students applying for the 2025 class at Northwestern University will not be required to submit an SAT or ACT score, university officials announced today. The temporary test-optional policy for the

By Northwestern News on June 18, 2020 - 6:38 pm

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NU, city to offer local businesses strategic consulting

Northwestern University and its Kellogg School of Management are partnering with the City of Evanston to provide strategic consulting support to local business owners. This is the first partnership of

By Northwestern News on May 12, 2020 - 10:49 pm

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Lori Lightfoot to be NU commencement speaker

Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago who has become a key voice — and face — of social distancing, will deliver this year’s commencement address at Northwestern University, which will be held

By Northwestern News on April 22, 2020 - 5:46 pm

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NU’s Wirtz Center launches Imagine U Storytime

Rives Collins and Lynn Kelso of Northwestern University’s department of theatre today announced the debut of “Imagine U Storytime,” a weekly video series presented by the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for

By Northwestern News on April 17, 2020 - 4:51 pm

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Futuristic technology prints 1,000 face shield components per day

Northwestern University researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate 1,000 components for face shields per day — with a single 3D printer. A critical piece of personal protective equipment, face

By Northwestern News on March 29, 2020 - 4:16 pm

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NU gets its largest financial aid gift ever

A transformative gift from two longtime donors will help generations of highly qualified students obtain a Northwestern University education. It will be the largest gift made to financial aid in

By Northwestern News on September 16, 2019 - 9:31 pm

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NU names new top attorney

Stephanie Mills Graham has been appointed Northwestern University's new vice president and general counsel, the school's president, Morton Schapiro, announced today. Graham, who has been the school's interim general counsel, was selected after

By Northwestern News on June 18, 2019 - 5:26 pm

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NU student affairs VP dies

Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs at Northwestern University, died early Monday after a long battle with cancer. She was 63. A Celebration of Life event in her honor

By Northwestern News on June 4, 2019 - 3:33 pm

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Dance Marathon fundraiser next weekend

More than 1,000 undergraduate students will hit the dance floor March 8 to 10 when Northwestern University Dance Marathon, one of the largest student-run philanthropies in the country, raises funds for

By Northwestern News on March 1, 2019 - 5:59 pm

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Smithsonian museum director named NU commencement speaker

Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s widely acclaimed National Museum of African American History and Culture, will deliver this year’s commencement address at Northwestern University in June. Bunch, who

By Northwestern News on February 5, 2019 - 3:59 pm

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NU study: 4-year-olds show signs of race, gender bias

A new Northwestern University study provides strong and consistent evidence, the researchers say, of bias at the intersection of race and gender in 4-year-old children. The researchers examined 4-year-old children’s responses

By Northwestern News on January 24, 2019 - 4:55 pm

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NU reaffirms gender diversity commitment

Despite recent efforts by the federal government to define a person’s gender as a biological fact determined at birth, Northwestern University is reiterating its commitment to policies that affirm gender identity

By Northwestern News on December 7, 2018 - 5:55 pm

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NU offers for-credit college courses at Stateville prison

A partnership between Northwestern University and the Illinois Department of Corrections launched a new education program at Stateville Correctional Center this fall that could lead to liberal arts degrees for

By Northwestern News on October 18, 2018 - 9:12 pm

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President’s Convocation welcomes students to NU

More than 2,000 new Wildcats from Northwestern University's Class of 2022 and transfer students filled the newly constructed Ryan Fieldhouse Sunday for the President’s Convocation, and a series of speakers urged

By Northwestern News on September 24, 2018 - 8:41 pm

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Student startup raises $800K to expand

BrewBike, a student-run coffee company founded at Northwestern University, has closed an $800,000 seed round and will use the funds to expand operations in the Chicago area and to other

By Northwestern News on September 20, 2018 - 7:30 pm

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NU boosts fundraising goal to $5 billion

Northwestern University this morning announced it's raised the fundraising goal for its "We Will" campaign to $5 billion from the original $3.75 billion target. The change comes as the university

By Northwestern News on September 6, 2018 - 3:34 pm