Amy Li
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Northwestern doctors upend family life to fight at frontlines, NM builds capacity for peak
After a shift in the emergency room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, resident Vidya Eswaran makes sure that someone else watches her while she removes her protective equipment. That’s the time when ER workers are most likely to get infected, she said. Because her apartment doesn’t have an in-unit washing machine, she said she tries to... → Read More
Brewbike launches two 24-hour, automated cold brew dispensers
BrewBike has launched two 24-hour, automated “pay as you pour” cold brew dispensers in Mudd Science and Engineering Library and Tech Express to cater toward students’ caffeine needs any time of the day. The “BrewBots” use a design that adds up the price of the coffee as you pour. The machine pre-authorizes the card for... → Read More
Three stops in Evanston to give back this holiday season
The holiday season doesn’t look the same for everyone in the Evanston community. In the season of giving, here are some ways to help this winter. Help survivors of domestic violence at YWCA Evanston/Northshore’s Women’s Emergency Shelter For women and children who have survived domestic violence, there are opportunities to donate money, toys and time... → Read More
NU MLK Dream Week invites founder of #MeToo Tarana Burke to speak
Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, will speak at Northwestern on Jan. 27, according to a Northwestern news release. Burke’s keynote presentation is a part of Northwestern’s MLK Dream Week, a week of programming to commemorate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Burke will present on the Chicago campus at... → Read More
Morton Schapiro describes Jeff Sessions’ visit as a ‘missed opportunity’
In a Chicago Tribune column, University President Morton Schapiro described former Attorney General Jeff Session’s invitation to speak on campus by Northwestern University College Republicans as “a missed opportunity” for students because a number of other conservative speakers could have “engaged the community more effectively than Sessions.” The editorial serves to clarify several points… → Read More
Weinberg Dean Adrian Randolph will make science, culture main focuses
This is the second article in a series called “2020 Vision” which walks through the reflections and hopes student groups, administrators and others throughout Northwestern have on the past few years and upcoming new decade. Entering the next decade, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences will focus on expanding its curricula and research in... → Read More
NU Prof. researches roundworms, lends evidence to Darwin's hypothesis
Erik Andersen, a Northwestern associate professor of molecular sciences, lent some of the first evidence to Charles Darwin’s 1859 hypothesis that natural selection acts similarly to domestication using new research that monitors roundworm reproductive processes. Andersen’s study, published on Sept. 23 in the journal of Nature Ecology & Evolution, uses one millimeter-long roundworms, C.… → Read More
Study cites access to assault rifles as leading cause in mass shootings
The most salient factor connecting modern mass shooters is access to lethal assault rifles, according to new research co-authored by Northwestern Prof. Lori Post. The Feinberg professor said accurate profiling of mass shooters is the first step to developing effective gun-control policies. The study, published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, found that mass shooters... → Read More
Graduate students to lose the right to unionize under proposed NLRB rule
Student workers at Northwestern and other private universities would lose employee status and unionization rights under a proposed regulation by the National Labor Relations Board. The proposal, announced last Friday, would strip all graduate students working as teaching and research assistants of federally backed rights to unionize and collectively bargain. The rule would only affect... → Read More
Jeff Ubben and Laurie Ubben donate $50 million for financial aid
Northwestern received a $50 million donation towards scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students — the largest gift made to financial aid in the University’s history. The donation by trustee and alumnus Jeff Ubben (Kellogg ’87) and his wife Laurie Ubben will support the University’s Thrive at Northwestern initiative under We Will. The Campaign... → Read More
Shandra White to serve as executive director for Sponsored Research
Shandra White has been named the executive director of Sponsored Research and will begin her tenure in the Office of Research on Oct. 1, the University announced Monday. The Office for Sponsored Research is responsible for assisting investigators in proposing and managing sponsored programs. White will be taking over during a time of accelerated growth... → Read More
Northwestern moves up to 9th place in U.S. News rankings
Northwestern was ranked the 9th best U.S. university this year in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Colleges list, marking the third consecutive year Northwestern has moved up a spot. Northwestern is one spot ahead of Duke and just below Stanford, the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania — which all tied... → Read More
Blockchain startup bloXroute exceeds $10 million in investments
A blockchain solution startup co-founded by Northwestern and Cornell University networking experts announced May 9 that the company has exceeded $10 million in investments. The latest round of funding for bloXroute, a blockchain scalability solution that aims to solve networking problems in the current blockchain ecosystem, came from leading venture capital hubs around the world,... → Read More
Soka Gakkai International shares Buddhist teachings at Northwestern
Students and community members gathered on Monday at Soka Gakkai International’s event to share their personal struggles, how they overcame them and how Buddhism gave them a key to happiness. The event, “Buddhist Solutions for Real Life: When We Change, the World Changes,” provided practicing Buddhists the opportunity to connect with other Buddhists outside of... → Read More
URSA to open shared prop closet to make filmmaking more accessible for RTVF students
The Undergraduate Radio/Television/Film Student Association plans to open a new closet for Department of Radio, Television and Film students to share prop resources and increase financial accessibility for students while eliminating waste within the department. Students will be able to donate props they no longer need and rent out props other students have donated ––... → Read More
Northwestern SOLR demands better treatment of service workers
Students are calling on Northwestern to treat its service workers better, saying the University’s new food service provider, Compass Group North America, has inflicted “emotional distress, financial anxiety and physical pain” on them since it assumed operations last fall. Students Organizing for Labor Rights, a coalition that works to build student-labor solidarity, is circulating a... → Read More
Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson performs at A&O show
Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson won the Northwestern crowd over on Saturday night with his delivery of a rowdy and racy stand-up set. The 25-year-old related to the audience of more than 500 college students by finding humor in awkward, raucous and personal confessions at an A&O Productions comedy show in Ryan Auditorium.... → Read More
ASG demands NU ban Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa’s scholarship
Legislation calling for NU to immediately terminate controversial psychologist Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa’s scholarship and ban him from conducting future research on campus was introduced during the Associated Student Government’s Senate meeting on Wednesday. The legislation was introduced by Senator Christian Wade. The Weinberg first-year added that NU must release an official statement that… → Read More
Friends remember Daniel Jessell as selfless, empathetic
At the end of a bad week in her freshman year, Alexa Bagamian remembers ordering and eating cookie cakes from Insomnia Cookies that said “sorry your week sucked” with Daniel Jessell, who was one of her closest friends. “It was hilarious,” Bagamian said. “It definitely made our weeks better. I knew I could count on... → Read More
Self-care tips to beat the holiday blues
2018 Holiday Guide Whether you’re dealing with Seasonal Affective Disorder or stressed over the demands of the holiday season, an easy first step to beating the holiday blues starts with you and self-care. Develop your own self-care ritual this holiday season to keep warm on cold nights. Buy something that you really don’t need Retail... → Read More