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Black students also more likely than average to feel they don't fit in.

When the Provost’s Generative AI Advisory Committee began meeting in February 2023, the focus revolved around creating strategies to limit students’ use of AI, said committee member and McCormick Prof. Kristian Hammond. However, since demand for AI literacy has grown, the committee quickly pivoted to focus on ways to become a leader in the AI...

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Michelin Sr. was inducted into the Illinois Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2013. On Oct. 14, Evanston City Council ...

Vermont field hockey's whirlwind week continues in Evanston, Illinois, where the Catamounts are ready to play in the program's first NCAA ...

I was counting down the days until my 10 year reunion at Northwestern. Then, last Tuesday night, former president Donald Trump was reelected, and I realized I could not make the trip back to Evanston. As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I have been politically active for as long as I...

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In the days after the election, I kept losing things. I would walk out of classes without my umbrella, unplug my phone and leave the charger, and wander in and out of my house missing socks, wearing too few or too many layers. Part of this was the natural upheaval of fall and the end...

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Nov 12, 2024; Evanston, Illinois, USA; Northwestern Wildcats center Matthew Nicholson (34) goes up for a shot against the Illinois-Chicago Flames ...

The Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education discussed its Year in Review report and new mental health care tools at its meeting Tuesday night. The board also discussed the district’s School Report Card, and tax levy memorandum — which includes a 6.2% increase and is planned to be adopted at the board’s...

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... Illinois State Senator Melinda Bush. ... Iles serves as the president of both Lincoln Elementary School's PTA president, Evanston Public Library Board ...

Following Ald. Melissa Wynne’s (3rd) announcement that she will not seek reelection in 2025 after 28 years on City Council, three candidates are running for her seat: environmentalist Gennifer Geer, shelter director Shawn Iles and businessperson John Kennedy. The consolidated general election will take place April 1, 2025. Wynne told The Daily she plans to...

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Comedian, writer and actor Ilana Glazer is well aware of the TikTok edits to the viral sound “In da clerb, we all fam.” “I’m just eating it up,” Glazer said. Glazer performed stand-up and answered student questions in a Tuesday evening Q&A in Norris University Center’s McCormick Auditorium as A&O Productions’ fall speaker. Around 300...

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Students created tobacco ties and a banner Monday as part of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Making Activity event that honors Native American Lives lost in the tragedy. The event was the second in a three-part series hosted by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance to commemorate the healing efforts of the Cheyenne and...

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The Faculty Senate is the elected body of Northwestern faculty, representing members from the Evanston, Chicago and Qatar campuses. The Senate consists of 94 members, including faculty from each department, individuals from the University Libraries and the Northwestern Emeriti Organization. NU faculty has shared governance of the University with the Board of Trustees and administration...

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City Council debatedHorizon Realty Group’s revised plans for The Legacy, a mixed-use building development at 1621-1631 Chicago Ave., Monday evening. The property is located just outside of downtown Evanston. The development will serve as a transition building between the densely built urban area to the west and the less intense developments to the east, according...

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Skokie, Illinois. Jeannette Weimer Obituary. Weimer, Jeannette Ann ... Evanston, IL 60208 *Please designate memorials to the College of Arts ...

Graduate students Holly Smith and Chloe Wellings sat on a couch in Northwestern cross country’s team lounge, coach Jill Miller’s dog Lou curled up between them. A year ago, the two United Kingdom natives had never met. Today, they’re roommates who watch British reality television together –– The Real Housewives of Cheshire is a favorite....

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Walfrid at his granddaughter Katherine's 2019 graduation from Lawrence University. Walfrid E. Kujala, age 99, of Evanston, Illinois, passed away on ...

Northwestern men's basketball beat Illinois-Chicago 83-74 on Tuesday in Evanston.

Northwestern coach David Braun’s first football game inside Wrigley Field was a fourth-quarter heartbreaker, as Iowa’s game-winning field goal on Nov. 4, 2023, granted the Hawkeyes a 10-7 win.  Over a full year later, Braun leads his team into The Friendly Confines hoping to play the role of giant-slayer. The Wildcats (4-5, 2-4 Big Ten)...

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Three days after the Deering Meadow encampment disassembled in April, Northwestern Provost Kathleen Hagerty commended Kellogg Prof. Nour Kteily for his role in negotiating with pro-Palestinian student protesters.  “He spent an incredible number of hours teaching a very disorganized and upset group of students how to organize themselves,” Hagerty wrote in a May 2 email...

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