UPDATE: The missing student Gabriel Corona was found safe. Northwestern University Police Department officers and community service officers are expanding their search for missing student Gabriel “Gabe” Corona, who was […]
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NU Study: Resilience May be Neurobiological
Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet some youth living in high-crime neighborhoods manage to avoid these effects. […]
How Babies’ Environment May Lead to Poor Health Later
New Northwestern University research underscores how environmental conditions early in development can cause inflammation in adulthood — an important risk factor for a wide range of diseases of aging, including […]
NU Opposes Executive Order Restricting Immigration
Northwestern University has joined 30 other colleges and universities around the country in filing an amicus brief opposing President Donald Trump’s second executive order restricting immigration. Universities today greatly […]
Expunging Criminal Arrest Records
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle talked Monday at a Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law event about a proposed bill in Illinois that will make it easier to get […]
Combined Support of $1 million to Pave Way for a K-12 Assessment
Evanston’s educational research-practice partnership will expand, thanks to $1 million in combined support from the Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. The partnership, which brings together Evanston schools, their […]
NU Dance Marathon Raises $1.25 Million
Exhausted and emotional, 1,500 undergraduate students who had just completed the final hour of the 30-hour-long Dance Marathon stood in suspense as members of the executive committee announced the total […]
Northwestern Files Amicus Brief Opposing Trump Executive Order
Northwestern University has joined with 16 other leading research universities to file an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in a lawsuit […]
NU Collaborates to Develop a History App
On Oct. 8 – just in time for the 140th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire — a new mobile app will make it possible to walk Chicago streets and travel […]
Almost 1,000 students register to vote during Northwestern’s Wildcat Welcome
In what is believed to be the first time an institution of higher education has made 50-state voter registration a routine part of new student week orientation, a new Northwestern […]